Get Writing and Recapture Your Free Time with How to Write a Lot
Rebecca Helton, MA
Do you find your grant-writing intruding on time you’d rather spend with your family? Did revisions to that last journal article ruin your vacation? Then this book might be …
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Think of It as the Next Big Adventure
Ross Cloney, PhD
Five years ago I joined Nature Communications from my postdoc to begin my new life as an editor.
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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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Writing Environments
The Edge for Scholars
Writing is an inherently social activity — we write for others — that we most often undertake in solitude. This is one of writing’s great contradictions. We write for an audience, …
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Writer's Toolbox: Creating Sentences That Flow
Lucile Wrenshall, MD, PhD
How to use power positions in sentences to create writing that flows.
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Prevent the Email Faux Pas That Gets You Fired: Read Send
Rebecca Helton, MA
Did you know that signing an email with “Sincerely” instead of “Best regards” can irrevocably alter your relationship with a colleague? Or that “please” and “thank you” can be anything …
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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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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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Random Reflections on Getting Published
The Edge for Scholars
Kirsten Bell, associate editor for Critical Public Health, spills the beans on what it takes to get published, including strategic submission dates, how to challenge an editorial decision, and doing …
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One-Minute Writing Repairs
The Edge for Scholars
Small adjustments can make big differences in clarity and style. We've rounded up these tips.
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