FemaleScienceProfessor

For the past couple of weeks I have been feeling occasionally distressed that I had not yet announced the theme of the annual Academic Writ...

The first entries in the reviewing writing-fest are fascinating because they are all apparently based on real reviews. In some cases, I thi...

It has taken me a while to have 6.2 minutes of spare time to put together a post about an end-of-year FSP academic writing contest, but he...

This post was inspired by the recent comment of a colleague, who told me that he knew it was time to send a manuscript off for review beca...

Today I am thinking about : paragraphs . You might not think that this topic has any hope of being interesting, and you are probably righ...

How important is writing quality for the success of a grant proposal? I don't think you can get a grant proposal funded just because it...

Today in Scientopia , I consider an ethical dilemma involving a PI and a research scientist who hates to write.

Not long ago, I heard a presentation by a Writing Expert -- someone (not a professor) who had expertise with teaching writing in academic co...

As many of my fellow bloggers know, we are constantly sent spam "comments" from people offering their services as dissertation wri...

Most novels have unmemorable opening lines. Some, however, are eternally memorable, either because they are very good or very bad. There is ...

** Note: I'll be roaming around with limited internet access until sometime Sunday. I will moderate comments when I can. ** Last spring...

Re. writing and how to advise others to improve their writing skills, good ol' Strunk & White is commonly dragged out as a source fo...

At a recent faculty meeting, my colleagues and I debated the eternal question of how to teach our graduate and undergraduate Science student...

A manuscript that I recently reviewed had a truly awful abstract. I thought, based only on reading the abstract: There is no way that this i...

A colleague is writing a proposal with a large number of other scientists and recently sent around a draft for the group to read, discuss, a...

A common complaint when a student has to write something (a proposal, a short paper, an abstract, a fellowship application) with a strict wo...

The past year has been a rather busy one for me for editing manuscripts, proposals, and other documents written by my students. It pleases m...

When someone gives me a manuscript or other text to read and/or edit, I return it with comments as soon as I can, ideally within a few days,...

The common practice of having a doctoral thesis in the sciences be comprised of manuscripts that have been published or submitted (or that a...

Once you've come up with the perfect title for a paper -- one that will convince people to read past the title and one that does not inv...