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Boosting your writing into a higher orbit. Once every three months (in February, May, August, and November), The Write Stuff, designed to build on the Writing and Publishing Scientific Articles (WAPSA) program conducted by Editing Services, will bring you tips, resources, and news that will help you be more successful in writing and publishing.

Archive

2021

Spring Vol. 18 No. 2

A change to the calculation of Journal Impact Factors
NIH podcast discusses alternatives to animals in biomedical research
Two online grammar resources to bookmark
What is a graphical abstract?
Unusual terms used in scientific writing and publishing: FAIR Principles

Winter Vol. 18 No. 1

Resources for making your research more rigorous
Best practices for presenting with Zoom
Research articles: Establishing authorship and author order
Unusual terms used in scientific writing and publishing: Megajournal

2020

Autumn Vol. 17 No. 4

New NIH training module: Vertebrate Animals Section
When a journal requests English-language editing
CRediT aims to clarify contributions to scientific publications
The Assisted Referral Tool (ART): A resource for selecting the best NIH study sections for your grant proposal
Unusual terms used in scientific writing and publishing: Cascading peer review

Summer Vol. 17 No. 3

Boost your chances of publication by following journals' instructions to authors
EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero: which citation management software is best?
Building your data management plan
Search for funding opportunities with Pivot
Expanding use of digital object identifiers in scientific publishing

Spring Vol. 17 No. 2

How to discuss your study's limitations effectively
Reference letters vs. letters of support for NIH grant applications: What’s the difference?
NCI Bottom Line blog offers insight into grant funding and budgets
Dissertations, Text Recycling, and Self-Plagiarism
NIH increases the use of Notices of Special Interest
Tips for using Track Changes in Microsoft Word

Winter Vol. 17 No. 1

Best practices for sharing confidential materials outside MD Anderson
11th edition of the AMA Manual of Style to be published this month
MD Anderson’s policies on disclosure of foreign relationships
New NIH grant application instructions and forms coming in spring 2020
Cabell’s Blacklist
Unusual terms used in scientific writing and publishing: Hybrid journal and mirror journal

2019

Autumn Vol. 16 No. 4

Scientific Publications and the Research Medical Library join forces, expand services
Incorporating sex as a biological variable in NIH grant applications
Hyperlinks in NIH grant applications
Altmetrics: Looking beyond citation analysis to measure impact
Guidelines for reporting your research methods to improve reproducibility and rigor
Unusual terms used in scientific writing and publishing: Core Grant

Summer Vol. 16 No. 3

Using Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) to enhance rigor and reproducibility
Court ruling sheds light on publishing giant OMICS International
Manuscript presentation tips to improve the peer review process
How to insert Greek letters, symbols, and other special characters in Word documents
Changes to Plan S give researchers and publishers time to adapt
Unusual terms used in scientific writing and publishing: Hanging indent

Spring Vol. 16 No. 2

Setting up a writing critique group
NIH clarifies terminology regarding rigor of the prior research
Scientific Publications’ grant proposal editing service
NIH tip: Check your funding opportunity announcement 30 days before submitting your grant application
Unusual terms used in scientific writing and publishing: “Blinded” peer review and clinical trials

Winter Vol. 16 No. 1

Grant Writers' seminars return in March
How to disagree with an NIH research grant proposal review
Using Publons to track and show peer reviews
Journal initiatives aim to improve transparency and reproducibility
New NIH videos demystify the grant review process
NIH launches new version of NIH Data Book including 2018 funding statistics
Unusual terms used in scientific writing and publishing: Sentence case and title case