Resources

Downloadable Resources

• UTHSC Editorial Style - UTHSC Writing and Style Guide. 
• 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 researchers.
• 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

The resource guide was created in collaboration of UTHSC Health Sciences Library and UTHSC Office of Scientific Writing (OSW), which can also be found on the Library’s OSW Research Guide webpage at https://libguides.uthsc.edu/scientificwriting.