Avoiding a Mismatch: How To Work with a Writer or Editor
Rebecca Helton, MA
You don't have to do it all yourself! Many successful researchers engage scientific/medical writers and editors for help with grants, manuscripts, press releases, and more.
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Get Your PMCIDs PDQ
Rebecca Helton, MA
One item easy to do from isolation is making sure your publications comply with the NIH Public Access Policy and receive PMCIDs.
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One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Correcting Comparisons
Rebecca Helton, MA
Using "compared to" in place of "than" inevitably leads you to compare the wrong things.
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The Guiding Principle in Scientific Writing
Crystal Herron, PhD
Scientific writing is based on a number of principles. But they are all led by one guiding principle: make the reader’s job easy.
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Helping Students Find the Focus of Their Manuscript
Evelyne Deplazes, PhD
Writing a paper is hard. Here I share my approach to help students plan their analyses and papers.
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You Need a Shut Up and Write Group Like You Need to Eat
Aimee Edgeworth
Like eating regular meals, there’s another thing you know you need to do, want to do, have to do, but can hardly find the time for: Writing.
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One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Energize Your Words with Active Voice
Rebecca Helton, MA
Sentence after sentence in passive voice is wordy, invites errors such as dangling modifiers, and grates on readers' nerves.
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Don't Wait Until You're Motivated to Write. Take Small Actions!
Evelyne Deplazes, PhD
Take some (small) action. Maybe forgetting about that manuscript is the best way to get that manuscript written :)
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Growing Stronger in the Face of Rejection: Roundup
Rebecca Helton, MA
Perspectives on managing the emotional fallout and using rejection to improve your work.
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Making Writing More Memorable and Persuasive
Eric Sentell, PhD
Schema theory can help you achieve compelling, influential memorability in your grant proposals, scholarly articles, and other writing.
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