Reality Check: It's Not Your Data
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Academics struggle over what is THEIR data. Letting go of ownership is essential to sanity and productivity. Here's how.
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PowerPoint Hacks for Scientific Poster Design
Aimee Edgeworth
Scientific poster design pro-tips from Power Point ninja Nicole Zaleski.
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Avoiding Barriers Between Your Work and Your Reviewer
Lucile Wrenshall, MD, PhD
Barriers - great for covid, bad for your grant. Here's how to avoid accidentally putting barriers between your proposal and your reviewer.
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Writing in Academia: An Interview with Helen Sword
The Edge for Scholars
Helen Sword has made a career of studying how academic writers write. She agreed to answer a few questions from the Edge.
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Publishing Null Results
Behavioral Scientist
Nearly every scientist has felt the frustration of pouring effort, money and (sometimes) tears into a project only to get null results. The elusive p<0.05 decides whether results get …
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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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Using Content-Lexical Ties To Connect Ideas in Writing
Eric Sentell, PhD
You may have been told that your writing doesn’t flow well, but were you taught what that meant? Were you told how to fix it?
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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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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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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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