The University of Toledo in Ohio maintains this fabulous database of “Instructions to Authors” from “over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences.” This generally includes the submissions requirements, style guidelines, and other details you need when publishing an article. This is also a great resource if you want to know what good writing [...]
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Resource for scientific journal authors
Posted in Links, tagged health sciences, journals, life sciences, style guide, university of toledo on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Free PBS videos online
Posted in Just for fun, Links, tagged nclive, pbs, subtitles, video on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
North Carolina residents can take advantage of a fabulous collection of free streaming video from PBS (American public television) on NClive.org. Even better for English learners: the videos have subtitles!! Some examples: Class Divided (classic documentary about Jane Elliott’s famous experiment called “Brown eyes/Blue eyes”); 1421: The Year China Discovered America; and my absolute favorite [...]
Good advice for PowerPoint presentations
Posted in Links, tagged powerpoint, presentations on July 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Thanks to the nice people on UNC’s Learn_IT discussion list for suggesting this page of Ten Thoughts on Using PowerPoint from the University of Texas. I particularly like this comment: No one can imagine Abraham Lincoln nor Martin Luther King, Jr., needing PowerPoint. The advice is excellent. I particularly recommend the tip about practice your [...]
Sample accepted NIH proposals
Posted in Learning Tips, Links, tagged grant proposals, niaid, NIH, research, ro1 on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (part of the NIH) has made available several accepted RO1 grant applications. These would be very useful for you to study if you have questions about the format and requirements of grant proposals. What do you notice? Leave a comment below! (Thanks to UNC’s Research Support newsletter [...]
CV/resume writing links
Posted in Links, UNC on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following guides are courtesy of the UNC Career Services (except #3): 1. Resume Writing 2. Sample resume of a graduate student 3. Resume or CV (School of Public Health) — includes examples 4. Curriculum Vitae (CV) (includes examples for arts & sciences) 5. Resume Builder software (UNC students only) Career Advising and Information at [...]
Proofreading/dictionary links
Posted in Links on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here are the links for the Proofreading workshop. Vocabulary Lists and levels: 1. Vocabulary Levels Tests (needs Internet Explorer) 2. The Academic Word List 3. AWL Practice Exercises 4. The Oxford 3,000 (includes lists of science, business, and arts words) Concordances and Corpus Searching (is my sentence natural in English?): 5. Data-Driven Learning Materials 6. [...]
Pronunciation Improvement Links
Posted in Links on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Try some of these websites for more pronunciation practice! The Sounds of English [excellent resource] Minimal Pairs Practice [good audio] Phonetics: The sounds of English [videos showing how to pronounce American English sounds: technical, but you might enjoy it] And some listening practice — listen and repeat? Voice of America Special English [the news, but [...]
Presentation Skills: Links
Posted in Links on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some links to resources about presentations to supplement this week’s Spring Break mini-course on Presentation Skills: MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) — self-study / lesson plans Advice for PowerPoint Presentations: http://www.unc.edu/bellttmi/resources.htm#slides http://www.bu.edu/celop/mll/tutorials/powerpoint.html http://www.actden.com/pp/index.htm (for older versions of PPT) http://www.actden.com/pp2007/index.htm (for PPT 2007) http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/techcomm/content/cat_030/preparingpresentationslides/index.html http://www.med.yale.edu/library/education/powerpoint.html (useful links for everyone, especially those in [...]
Paraphrasing Links
Posted in Links on February 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Check out my new video presentation about paraphrasing and plagiarism! Further reading on paraphrasing and plagiarism: The Writing Center has an excellent handout on paraphrasing and plagiarism The UNC Libraries have useful tutorials on information ethics and citations Perdue’s Online Writing Lab has good information on paraphrasing For more help with citations and style guides [...]
Vocabulary Development 4: Academic Vocabulary
Posted in Links on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some websites that focus specifically on academic vocabulary: 1. The Academic Word List2. Vocabulary in EAP3. AWL Practice Exercises4. The Compleat Lexical Tutor5. Academic Vocabulary (University of Nottingham)6. The Oxford 3000 Lists
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