Overheard at Ground Level: Fresh Brewed Mentoring
The Edge for Scholars
Collected pearls from office hours with senior mentors and leaders.
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How a Jail-house Letter and Goat Research Can Get Your Grant Funded
Eric Sentell, PhD
So-called “audience-based rhetoric” persuades much more effectively than just stating the reasons your grant is the best idea ever.
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Three (Grant) Peeves in a Pod: Write Better
Cranky Reviewer
Contorted sentence structure and dense text torture reviewers.
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Big Words
Lucile Wrenshall, MD, PhD
Big words in academic writing - love 'em or leave 'em?
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“Zoom In” to Keep Group Review and Critique on Track
Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD
Work-in-Progress sessions can get bogged down at the wrong level of feedback. Use a zoom-in approach to structure review and critique.
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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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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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Friendly Advice from Your NIH Grant Reviewer
Vicky Morgan, PhD
Dear PI, I am your NIH grant reviewer. Many feel that reviewers are the enemy. But for the next few weeks I want to be your friend.
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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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Summer Reading for Work and Play
Lucile Wrenshall, MD, PhD
Reading recs for those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer that are just around the corner.
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