Listen to this interview of Yang Zhang, faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. We talk about the centrality of text to the research process.

Yang Zhang : "Nowadays, especially when I talk with my students, you know, when I help them write papers, I can sorta estimate how many days or hours they'll need to finish a specific part of that paper. And if a student doesn't quite keep to that timeline, then I know I should check in with them to ask where they've gotten stuck and why. And this sort of ability is a skill a researcher gains with experience, having amassed experience at the act of writing. Because this is not something where there's a handbook — you know, like once you read the Magical Handbook on Writing you'll know the process."

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