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The STEM Writing Guide offers valuable resources for students, faculty, and staff in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It covers essential topics related to writing in these fields, including research strategies, citation guidelines, and effective communication. You can explore the guide to enhance your STEM writing skills.
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Resources
A Guide to Scientific Writing Checklist
A guide from Northeastern University provides comprehensive instructions on crafting clear and effective scientific papers, covering essential sections like introductions, methods, and results, while highlighting common pitfalls and best practices.
Duke Graduate School Scientific Writing Resource Guide
The Duke Graduate School Scientific Writing Resource is an online platform aimed at helping graduate students improve their scientific writing skills. It emphasizes effective communication over grammatical correctness and provides lessons, examples, and worksheets for both classroom and individual use.
Stanford Online: Writing in the Sciences
Stanford’s “Writing in the Sciences” course, taught by Dr. Kristin Sainani, helps scientists improve their writing skills through practical examples and exercises. The course covers principles of good writing, tips for writing efficiently, the structure of scientific manuscripts, and issues related to publication and peer review.
The Writing Center UNC Chapel Hill: Sciences
The UNC Writing Center’s “Sciences” section provides guidance on effective scientific writing, emphasizing precision, clarity, and objectivity. It offers strategies for improving scientific prose and details the critical aspects of writing in the sciences, such as presenting data and ideas clearly and accurately.
Tools
The Most Dangerous Writing App
A unique web application designed to combat writer’s block by deleting all progress if you stop typing for a set period, typically five seconds.
A writing and editing tool designed to enhance the clarity and readability of your text. It focuses on simplifying sentence structure, eliminating unnecessary words, and promoting active voice.
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How to write in STEM
Examples of STEM Writing
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List of Articles
- Four principles to help non-native speakers of English write clearly
- Improving together: better science writing through peer learning
- Science stories: researchers' experiences of writing science communication and the implications for training future scientists
- Science writing: On what's neither clear nor obvious
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Introduction
Check out the below videos from Stanford University's "Writing Matters: a series about writing's connection with academic and professional success." The three videos show different STEM faculty discussing the importance of writing.
Ravi Vakil, Professor of Mathematics
Susan Holmes, Professor of Statistics and Bio-X
Margot Gerritsen, Professor of Energy Resources Engineering
UM's Guidance for Using AI
- Use of AI must be open and documented
- Beware the potential of introducing bias through AI
- You are 100% responsible for the final product
- Confidential data shoul be treated carefully (FERPA okay, HIPPAA not okay )
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Introduction
On this tab, learn the requirements and steps neccessary for submitting your NSF grant proposal. There are links to sample proposals, templates, and application guides that can help you format your submission correctly.
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