This series of 14 lessons and exercises was developed at the now defunct Center for Scientific Communication at Vanderbilt by Jessica Moore in 2010.

This article presents eight mini-activities or stations, each 10-15 minutes long, that can be used together or as separate activities added to other lab ...

1. Practice turning titles and abstracts into Tweets · 2. Practice turning abstracts into TLDR summaries · 3. Practice bulleting out key takeaways from abstracts, ...

Additional material includes suggested reading (Chapter 11), editing exercises (Chapter 12), and samples of letters important in managing scientific publication ...

Description. This workshop is aimed at researchers, PhD students and academics who want to improve their scientific writing skills.

Always guide your reader: the first sentence(s) of a chapter / section / paragraph should make clear what will happen in that chapter / section / paragraph!

a. You should use precise words rather than basic words such as good and bad in your writing. You should also use cautious language when expressing negative ...

Practice Exercises: Writing, Reading, Grammar. Practice exercises to review what you have learned and identify any areas that need more focus.

Active-Passive Exercise: Rewrite the following sentences so that passive constructions are changed to active verbs. Some of these sentences do not use passive ...

This page offers examples of exercises your students can do in class. There are several exercises that reinforce the basic elements of science writing.