Writing

  • Ecology, Evolution and Conservation based journal's and their fee's and perks

    Researcher Jesse Alston maintains an extensive spreadsheet of Ecology, Evolution and Conservation based journal's and their fee's and perks.

    Explore the spreadsheet.

  • Guidelines for Authorship - General

    General Guidelines for Authorship Contributions

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  • Guidelines for Authorship - Taxonomy

    CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy).

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  • The Open Notebook

    Free trainings and resources on the craft of journalism that is focused on science stories.

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  • The Writing Base

    The Writing BASE is a self-diagnostic tool designed to help you broaden and strengthen your writing practice. The four cornerstones of the BASE reflect key principles distilled from the advice and experiences of productive writers from across the disciplines and around the world.

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  • Master's Thesis Proposal Tips

    Writing an overview of your project is designed not only to formally announce your intentions as far as your Master’s thesis goes, but also to help you become more fluent in and informed about the topic for your project. Produced by University of Idaho.

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  • How to Write a Research Abstract for a Research Article: 7 Components of an Abstract with an Example

    Learn the seven components of an abstract and how these components are used in a published research article abstract.

    You can watch the video here.

    Get the Scientific Research Paper Checklist here.

  • A gentle guide to publishing peer reviewed papers

    You’ve conducted some analyses, made some conclusions, and now you’re ready to write up your paper and submit it to a peer-reviewed journal. Woohoo! This in and of itself is a momentous occasion. At this point, you may be confused on how to proceed. You have a manuscript, or something resembling a manuscript, but you have never published a paper in a scientific, peer-reviewed journal before. You would like it to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. How do you get from here to there?

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  • Writers Diet "Writing Test"

    Test sections of your writing for prepositions, zombie verbs, etc.

    Take the test here.