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General writing resources
General writing resources
Books on scientific writing
Houston we have a Narrative
by Randy Olson
Writing Science
by Joshua Schimel
What editors want
by P J Benson & S C Silver
The Sense of Style
by Steven Pinker
Blogs, websites, and YouTube courses on scholarly writing
Arizona State University YouTube series on writing composition
Articles & other stuff that we found useful and why
Articles & other stuff that we found useful and why
Exemplary signposting
Exemplary signposting
Read the first sentence of each paragraph and you get the whole story
Reference: Schmitz, Lars, and Ryosuke Motani. "Nocturnality in dinosaurs inferred from scleral ring and orbit morphology." Science 332, no. 6030 (2011): 705-708.
ACS style guide
ACS style guide
Style guide of the American Chemical Society
Classic article on Science Writing
Classic article on Science Writing
software resources
software resources
Free and open software for figures
Free and open software for figures
List of free software to replace Adobe products for creating images
Easy to use
Biorender | Scientific Image and Illustration Software
Advanced users
Inkscape | Vector drawing program
Gimp | Image Manipulation Program
R project | statistical analysis and graphing package
R graph gallery | gallery to help you design graphs in R
Addition course resources
Addition course resources
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