Introduction
This webpage contains documentation to help students learn how to write as a scientist. It includes guides that span the various outlets that scientific communication takes place. The goal of this page is to be as user friendly as possible, so you'll find documents and resources along with powerpoint presentations for each topic. With this design in mind, that means that the resources can be accessed individually for particular topics, or this webpage and it's resources can also be adapted as a semester long course on Writing in Science or Scientific Publishing. Since the goal of this webpage is teaching, any copy written materials are provided for educational purposes and the copy write stays with the original holder. Anything produced is otherwise available under the creative commons copy write found at the bottom of the website.
About
Writing in the sciences is HARD. Growing up I struggled with writing and gravitated towards the sciences because there seemed to be less writing involved. Advancing through science, all of a sudden writing was everywhere from grants to papers, to abstracts, to posters, a seemingly endless number of writing styles and outlets.
This webpage contains documentation to help students learn how to research and write as a scientist. It includes guides that span the various outlets that scientific communication takes place. The goal of this page is to be as user friendly as possible, so you'll find documents and resources along with powerpoint presentations for each topic. With this design in mind, that means that the resources can be accessed individually for particular topics, or this webpage and it's resources can also be adapted as a semester long course on Writing in Science.