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The Write Toolkit for Medical Researchers: Tips for Better Abstracts, Manuscripts and Grants Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 Duration:
60 Minutes
Time: 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
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Instructor: Hope J Lafferty
Location: Online
Overview: In this webinar, Hope will present the lessons she's learned over her career as a scientific and medical writer and editor. By identifying simple solutions to common problems, early career scientists and medical researchers will have tools to improve their ability to write, edit, and organize their manuscripts, grants, and presentations, and ultimately increase their academic and research productivity.
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The importance of word choice to break the monotony of repetition and make the content more compelling Contemporary term usage, to shift away from using the shorthand and antiquated terms that scientists and physicians use to quickly communicate in less structured types of writing How best to convey one's argument by simply understanding and modifying how sentences are structured How---and why---to write with the audience in mind, especially in a world where our research reaches members of a global audience at different career stages Ways to demystify and approach the writing process, by knowing how to prepare, where to start, and when to revise
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Contemporary Usage & Word Choice
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Any researcher that writes manuscripts, grants, and other technical documents ¡ MDs ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡
PhDs Early career researchers Postdoctoral fellows Junior faculty Statisticians Technical writers
About Speaker Hope J Lafferty Medical Writer | Science Editor | Speaker and Trainer | Writing Coach, Hope Lafferty Communications Hope J. Lafferty, AM, ELS As a board-certified Editor in the Life Sciences, Hope has more than 20 years' experience as a science editor. In the mid-1990s, Hope served as marketing director for one of the first Internet broadcasters in Austin, Texas. From there, she worked for many years as a technical writer at the Department of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, ... more
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