Paper-Writing Checklists to Prevent Headaches Down the Road
Rebecca Helton, MA
Avoid authorship headaches and streamline the path from data to paper with these checklists.
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Towards New Paradigms in Scientific Publishing
Double Docs
New approaches can move more research output into the public sphere.
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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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Why Can’t NIH Study Sections Operate More Like Journal Reviews?
Lisa Pastore, PhD
Why can’t NIH Study Sections have a consistent set of reviewers and consistent critique?
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Reviewers & Editors Share the Secret Sauce
Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD
Publishing Your Medical Research has a secret sauce - data from reviewers and editors.
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Creed: Taking a Beating
Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD
Getting out of the ring too early is the most common cause of death of scientific ideas. Fight on.
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One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Don't Dangle Your Modifiers Off a Cliff
Rebecca Helton, MA
A "dangling modifier" has nothing in the sentence to modify, or appears to modify something the author doesn't intend it to.
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You MUST Read Dreyer's English
Julia Phillippi, PhD
If Strunk and White is a subtle and respectable Merlot, Dreyer’s English is a Cosmopolitan: light, witty, and slightly pink. Reading this style guide is like going to party …
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One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Comprise vs. Compose
Rebecca Helton, MA
“Comprised of” should never exist in formal writing.
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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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