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Advance Scientific Writing Courses and Resources

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Resources

All About Grants Tutorials -- NIAID
Link to the NIAID (National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases) website which provides on-line tutorials on preparing RO1 grant applications. Tutorials help biomedical investigators, especially new ones, plan, write, and apply for the basic NIH research project grant, the R01. Advice comes from the experience of NIAID staff, including former NIH grantees.

Authorship and Accountability
PowerPoint presentation in which Harold "Hal" Sox, M.D., Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine, lists the qualifications to be listed as an author as well as the specific ways in which an author is accountable for a paper's content.

Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers
This guide is used and recommended by both Dr. Judith Swan and Dr. Elizabeth Colston, who teach classes in Advance’s Scientific Writing Series.

Courses

Course Title
Description
Date/Time/Location
Instructor

Writing an Article for Publication Part 1: Writing the "Results" Section

ENROLL NOW

This session will focus on relating the results text to the figures in a way that tells a compelling scientific story.

CME credit has been requested for this course

Friday, October 5, 2012

12:00pm - 1:30pm

BRB 252

Liz Colston, MD, PhD

Writing an Article for Publication Part 2: Writing the "Introduction" Section

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This session will focus on constructing Introductions with the important elements in the right order.

CME credit has been requested for this course

Friday, November 2, 2012

12:00pm - 1:30pm

BRB 252

Liz Colston, MD, PhD

Writing an Article for Publication Part 3: Writing the "Discussion" Section

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This session will focus on four elements of a sound argument: claims, evidence, warrants, and qualifications.

CME credit has been requested for this course

Friday, November 30, 2012

12:00pm - 1:30pm

TRC 01-102

Liz Colston, MD, PhD

Writing an Article for Publication Part 4: Writing the Abstract for Your Paper

ENROLL NOW

Increasingly, journal editors and reviewers are using the abstract to triage submitted manuscripts.  This session will focus on writing excellent abstracts

CME credit has been requested for this course

Friday, December 14, 2012

12:00pm - 1:30pm

BRB 1412

Liz Colston, MD, PhD

Writing an Article for Publication Part 1: Writing the "Results" Section

ENROLL NOW

This session will focus on relating the results text to the figures in a way that tells a compelling scientific story.

CME credit has been requested for this course

Friday, January 18, 2013

12:00pm - 1:30pm

TBA

Liz Colston, MD, PhD

Writing an Article for Publication Part 2: Writing the "Introduction" Section

ENROLL NOW

This session will focus on constructing Introductions with the important elements in the right order.

CME credit has been requested for this course

Wednesday, February 15, 2013

12:00pm - 1:30pm

TBA

Liz Colston, MD, PhD

Writing an Article for Publication Part 3: Writing the "Discussion" Section

ENROLL NOW

This session will focus on four elements of a sound argument: claims, evidence, warrants, and qualifications.

CME credit has been requested for this course

Friday, March 15, 2013

12:00pm - 1:30pm

TBA

Liz Colston, MD, PhD

Writing an Article for Publication Part 4: Writing the Abstract for Your Paper

ENROLL NOW

Increasingly, journal editors and reviewers are using the abstract to triage submitted manuscripts.  This session will focus on writing excellent abstracts

CME credit has been requested for this course

Friday, April 19, 2013

12:00pm - 1:30pm

TBA

Liz Colston, MD, PhD