A JMP is not just a piece of research. It is also a demonstration of how you think as a researcher: how you identify a question, define the limits of an argument, establish a contribution, anticipate an audience, and make your work legible as an important contribution to the field.

We talk about why those skills are often harder to learn than the technical ones, why writing the paper backwards from the presentation can get you into trouble, and why a strong JMP requires knowing not just what you have found, but how to communicate what it means.