Resources
Downloadable Resources
- Publishing Your Manuscript - slide deck from Dr. Steven R. Goodman, Vice Chancellor for Research
- How to Write a Scientific Masterpiece - Journal of Clinical Investigation. Neill, U.S. (2007)
- Working With the Office of Scientific Writing - shortened slide deck from Dr. Richard Redfearn's April 25, 2017 "Hot Topics in
Research" presentation.
- Added content: Slides with screenshots showing how to set up your PC or Mac to use Flesch Readability Statistics in Microsoft Word.
- Tutorial: Using Readability Statistics to Enhance the “Reading Ease” of Your Proposal or Manuscript - This short tutorial will teach you how to use the readability statistics embedded in Word to calculate the Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level for your spell-checked text in manuscripts and grant proposals.
- "X" Model for a Grant Narrative - A brief explanation regarding the use of general to specific abstraction to improve your narrative transitions from an introduction to results/discussion to conclusion sections of a proposal or manuscript.
- How to Write Specific Aims - BioScience Writers. Michelle, S. (2015)
- Specific Aims Examples - Maintained by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for AIDS Research
- What Is Editing? - ThoughtCo. Nordquist, R. (2019)
Other Online Resources
- iThenticate - A plagiarism detection service offered free of charge to UTHSC faculty.
- Sample Applications & More - Maintained by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health (NIH) (2017)
- Sample Grant Applications - Maintained by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences (2019)
- NIH Grant Applications: The Anatomy of a Specific Aims Page - Maintained by BioScience Writers LLC. BioScience Writers (2015)
- The Buck Starts Here - The Chronicle of Higher Education. Markin, K.M. (2005)
- How Your Grant Proposal Compares - The Chronicle of Higher Education. Stone, D.A. (2009)
- Becoming a Successful Principal Investigator - The Chronicle of Higher Education. Stone, D.A. (2010)
- Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors - Maintained by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (2018)
UTHSC Library Research Guides
Scientific Writing- This is a link to a resource guide created in collaboration of UTHSC Health Sciences Library and UTHSC Office of Scientific Writing (OSW).