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Author Guidelines

European Association of Science Editors NEW 2012 guidelines on writing scientific papers, available in 20 languages.

English Communication for Scientists

It is a brief guide on how to communicate more effectively in English, no matter how much previous experience you have, from Nature's Scitable.

How you write matter

Science Careers Blog, 19 July 2012

Science Careers blog

Science Careers blog on "Peer Review Guide" for early career researchers

Beginnings: Writing your first science paper

published at Soapbox Science Nature Blog, 27 Jul 2012

Beginnings: How to write your first grant proposal

published at Soapbox Science Nature Blog, 31 Jul 2012

A bank of phrases

... to help you with tasks such as:

• establish the importance of the topic
• highlight a problem in the field
• highlight a controversy
• highlight a knowledge gap
• focus, aim, argument...

“How to improve your writing”

Free guide

The level of zoom you're at when copying images from a PDF to Powerpoint has a huge effect on the resolution of the output images

In Adobe Acrobat, when using the "snapshot" tool under the "tools" menu, be sure that you have zoomed in adequately to capture the needed resolution for the ppt slide. It's possible to use the select tool, or you can simply "copy" from the "edit" menu. Click here for an illustration of the difference that zoom level can have on images pasted into Powerpoint slides.
Thanks to Alon Goren for sharing this tip!
Alon Goren, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow in Bernstein and Regev's groups at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard MGH Pathology, Harvard Medical School (http://www.broadinstitute.org/)

Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation

Thomas C Erren, Philip E Bourne
PLOS Computational Biology:
Published 25 May 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030102