NCFDD - Week 1 Writing Science: How to Write Proposals that Get Funded and Papers that Get Cited

02-15-2018 11:00 AM

Multi-Week Course
As a scientist, you are a professional writer. Your career is built on proposals and papers that teach by telling a clear story, illustrating not just your data but also your novel insights. In this workshop, we will first explore how to use different story structures—why specialist papers have the punch in the conclusions while in a proposal, “if you haven’t told them in the first two pages, you haven’t told them.” From there, we will move down toward paragraphs exploring how to make writing connect and flow. Finally we will explore how to make writing engaging—activating language and decluttering it. The overall goal is to communicate clearly—how to make your writing powerful and professional without being pedantic.

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