Securing funding through grant proposals can be a long and difficult process.Experts share their advice on how to help your applications succeed
Read the eligibility rules
Leave plenty of time to prepare
No unexplained jargon
Get other people to read it
Explain why research is needed
Network effectively
Justify extra time or resources
Participate in funding panels
Interpret referees feedback carefully
Plan applications in batches
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Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Friday, 25 November 2016
Friday, 12 February 2016
7 tips for writing help content that delights customers
Despite your best efforts to create top-notch products, users may still get confused about how to use them. Follow this guide on creating help content that won't cost you customers.
Help content is often one of the last resorts for frustrated or confused users when deciding whether to continue using your website or application or give up on it. Here are seven tips for a writer, developer, product manager, or business person who wants to create great help content in order to make sure users stick around.
1: Get to know your user
2: Write for frustrated users
3: Get right to the point
4: Be organized
5: Test before you publish
6: Don't throw off the user's groove
7: Keep content fresh
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Help content is often one of the last resorts for frustrated or confused users when deciding whether to continue using your website or application or give up on it. Here are seven tips for a writer, developer, product manager, or business person who wants to create great help content in order to make sure users stick around.
1: Get to know your user
2: Write for frustrated users
3: Get right to the point
4: Be organized
5: Test before you publish
6: Don't throw off the user's groove
7: Keep content fresh
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Saturday, 25 May 2013
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
50 Awesome Open Source Resources for Writers and Writing Majors
With the popularity of blogging and online journals, writers working in the online realm have a growing number of opportunities all the time to practice and refine their craft, and maybe even get paid for it. And if you're a writing major, why not take advantage of all the opportunities to get great free and open source resources that can help you to write, edit and organize your work? Here's a list of fifty open source tools that you can use to make your writing even better.
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Friday, 24 February 2012
English Communication for Scientists
What information should you include in an abstract, and in what order? How can you get your message across in an oral presentation — with or without slides? How much text is acceptable on a poster? Communication is an integral part of the research you perform as a scientist and a crucial competence for a successful career, yet it is an activity you may not feel prepared for.
English Communication for Scientists is a brief guide on how to communicate more effectively in English, no matter how much previous experience you have. Although it was developed with non-native speakers of English in mind, it should prove useful for native speakers, too. Organized as six self-contained units, it will help you understand basic communication strategies and address various audiences (Unit 1); design and draft not only scientific papers (Unit 2) but also e-mail, résumés, and short reports (Unit 3); structure, support, and deliver oral presentations (Unit 4); create and present posters, chair sessions, and participate in panels (Unit 5); and prepare, run, and evaluate classroom sessions (Unit 6). Created by seasoned communicators, English Communication for Scientists provides no-nonsense, directly applicable guidelines, illustrated with examples of written documents, oral presentations, and more. Improving your scientific communication is only a click away: start today!
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English Communication for Scientists is a brief guide on how to communicate more effectively in English, no matter how much previous experience you have. Although it was developed with non-native speakers of English in mind, it should prove useful for native speakers, too. Organized as six self-contained units, it will help you understand basic communication strategies and address various audiences (Unit 1); design and draft not only scientific papers (Unit 2) but also e-mail, résumés, and short reports (Unit 3); structure, support, and deliver oral presentations (Unit 4); create and present posters, chair sessions, and participate in panels (Unit 5); and prepare, run, and evaluate classroom sessions (Unit 6). Created by seasoned communicators, English Communication for Scientists provides no-nonsense, directly applicable guidelines, illustrated with examples of written documents, oral presentations, and more. Improving your scientific communication is only a click away: start today!
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011
How to write -- Special compilation from Nature
Five top science book writers offer advice for budding authors in a series of interviews in Nature's Books & Arts section. Peter Atkins reveals the hard work behind a successful textbook; Carl Zimmer highlights how passion is essential for popular science; David Brin reveals how criticism improves his fiction writing; Georgina Ferry shares research tips for biographies; and Joanna Cole explains how to convey science to children.
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Read the collection
Friday, 15 April 2011
Where to get quotations for presentations?
From presentation zen blog
In my presentations, I may have several slides which feature a quote from a famous (sometimes not so famous) individual in the field. The quote may be a springboard into the topic or serve as support or reinforcement for the particular point I'm making. A typical Tom Peters presentation at one of his seminars, for example, may include dozens of slides with quotes. "I say that my conclusions are much more credible when I back them up with great sources," Tom says
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In my presentations, I may have several slides which feature a quote from a famous (sometimes not so famous) individual in the field. The quote may be a springboard into the topic or serve as support or reinforcement for the particular point I'm making. A typical Tom Peters presentation at one of his seminars, for example, may include dozens of slides with quotes. "I say that my conclusions are much more credible when I back them up with great sources," Tom says
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62 ways to improve your press releases
From the Bad language Blog by Matthew Stibbe
There are many voices calling for the death of the press release What is needed is not execution but reform. Here are my tips and suggestions for doing it.
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There are many voices calling for the death of the press release What is needed is not execution but reform. Here are my tips and suggestions for doing it.
Read the list
Thursday, 14 April 2011
10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly
Most academics, including administrators, spend much of our time writing. But we aren't as good at it as we should be. I have never understood why our trade values, but rarely teaches, nonfiction writing.
Rachel Toor and other writers on these pages have talked about how hard it is to write well, and of course that's true. Fortunately, the standards of writing in most disciplines are so low that you don't need to write well. What I have tried to produce below are 10 tips on scholarly nonfiction writing that might help people write less badly.
1. Writing is an exercise.
2. Set goals based on output, not input.
3. Find a voice; don't just "get published."
4. Give yourself time.
5. Everyone's unwritten work is brilliant.
6. Pick a puzzle.
7. Write, then squeeze the other things in.
8. Not all of your thoughts are profound.
9. Your most profound thoughts are often wrong.
10. Edit your work, over and over.
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Rachel Toor and other writers on these pages have talked about how hard it is to write well, and of course that's true. Fortunately, the standards of writing in most disciplines are so low that you don't need to write well. What I have tried to produce below are 10 tips on scholarly nonfiction writing that might help people write less badly.
1. Writing is an exercise.
2. Set goals based on output, not input.
3. Find a voice; don't just "get published."
4. Give yourself time.
5. Everyone's unwritten work is brilliant.
6. Pick a puzzle.
7. Write, then squeeze the other things in.
8. Not all of your thoughts are profound.
9. Your most profound thoughts are often wrong.
10. Edit your work, over and over.
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How to Succeed in Business Writing: Don't Be Dickens
The lesson for business communication here is that whatever you write, however you write it, is okay — as long as you accept that your audience will be reduced for every slice of yellow fruit you add to your tomato sauce. In other words, if you do not conform to the norm, people will stop listening to you not because of what you are saying, but because of how you are saying it.
The proper use of paragraphs.
Simple sentences.
The primacy of the first sentence.
Reading vs. scanning.
Tone of voice.
Humor.
Read this HBR blog post
The proper use of paragraphs.
Simple sentences.
The primacy of the first sentence.
Reading vs. scanning.
Tone of voice.
Humor.
Read this HBR blog post
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