Dr. Koster's List of Scientific and Technical Writing Links

This page lists links to a number of on-line resources for technical and scientific writing. I haven't examined all of them for the 2005 semester, so please ask me if you have questions about any of the advice they provide. Like all URLs, they tend to change frequently. Please let me know if a link is broken by clicking here.

Resources for English for Science and Technology (lots of teacher help but good student stuff too)
Svetla Baykoucheva's list of Internet Resources for Scientific Writing
George Gopen and Anna Swan's article, "The Science of Science Writing"
Chemistry.org's list of scientific writing resources on the web (very comprehensive)
Austin Community College's Online Technical Writing Textbook--good in a pinch
University of Alberta's Technical Writing Links
Web Sites of Interest to Technical Communicators compiled by the North Bay Chapter of STC--everything from grammar to clip art for sci/tech writers to classified ads
MIT's technical writing links list
University of Wisconsin (Madison)'s Comprehensive Guide to CBE Documentation
Monroe Community College's excellent overview of CBE style, including documenting Internet sources
The University of the Sciences' (Philadelphia) Guide to Biomedical Writing
The Society for Technical Communication's List of Online Resources
About.com and the Mining Company's Guide to Technical Writing
Writerswrite.com's Technical Writing Page
Ohio State's Technical and Professional Writing Links
Mike Markel's Technical Writing Book Support Site
Websites of Interest for Technical Communicators: well-annotated and frequently updated by a California STC chapter
Inkspot.com's Links on Technical Writing
University of Alberta's Links for Technical Writing
A great page of links on How to Read Scientific Papers Critically: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/collections/read.shtml

Curriculum Vitae Writing

Pagewise's How to Write a Curriculum Vitae (good advice, but the example didn't transfer well to HTML from Word, so don't use that spacing!)
University of Virginia's How to Write a CV site (big PDF file, good examples, slow loading)
Purdue University's CV Writing Advice (with link to an example at the end)
UNC's Guide for Writing a CV (good category headings, pretty intimidating example)
More links along the same lines on one handy page at SMSU
About.com's very handy "do's and don't's" page for CV writing
A physician's personal tip sheet for CV's for medical school and residency applications

Resources for Giving Presentations
Guidelines for students giving presentations
Oral Presentation Advice  
Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases (a humor classic)
Giving Presentations and Leading Discussions
Giving Presentations with your Computer
Some Helpful Hints for Giving Presentations
How to Do Research and Give Presentations (This is oriented to the sciences)
Quiz on Your Presentation Skills

Resources for Grantwriters

Rochester Institute of Technology, "Writing A Successful Proposal," http://www.rit.edu/~629www/proposalprep/write_proposal.html  
Wendy Sanders, "Proposal Writing: The Business of Science" (discusses new NIH funding guidelines and tailoring grant proposals to meet them): http://www.whitaker.org/sanders.html  
Columbia University Medical Center page of links for successful grant writing in the sciences: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/research/writing.htm  
Very recent set of powerpoints on the grant review process in psychology (Feb. 2005):  
Indiana University Graduate Grants Center list of tips and tutorials for student grantwriters: http://www.indiana.edu/~gradgrnt/pubs/pubs.html  
Environmental Protection Agency’s Grant-Writing Tutorial: http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/seahome/grants.html
Chapter 1 of Friedland & Fold’s Writing Successful Science Proposals (Yale, 2000): http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/pdf/0300081405.pdf
Non-Profit Guides’ Grant-Writing Proposals for Non-Profits: http://www.npguides.org/
The Foundation Center’s "Proposal Writing Short Course": http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html
The Foundation Center’s "Finding Funders": http://fdncenter.org/funders/
NIH’s Grant Writing Tip Sheets: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/grant_tips.htm
Ellen Barrett (U of Miami School of Medicine)’s "Hints for Writing Successful NIH Grants": PDF file
Beginning Grant Writing: An Educator’s Guide (portal with lots of links, but ignore the terrible background): http://www.uml.edu/College/Education/Faculty/lebaron/GRANTBEGIN/
S. Joseph Levine (Michigan State University)’s "Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal" (with lots of examples): http://www.learnerassociates.net/proposal/
GrantProposal.com, "a site devoted to providing free resources for both advanced grantwriting consultants and inexperienced nonprofit staff":  http://www.grantproposal.com/
Purdue University’s Environmental Studies Program Grant Writing Tutorial: http://abe.www.ecn.purdue.edu/~epados/grants/src/msieopen.htm
National Institute of General Medical Sciences Guide for New Grant Applicants: http://www.nigms.nih.gov/funding/tips.html
Carolina Biological Co.’s helpful "Grant Writing Resources": http://www.carolina.com/grants/index.asp

Professional Communication Groups:
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
IEEE
Society for Technical Communication

More library resources
Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library Scientific Writing Links
NOAA's "Tips for Writing Scientific Articles"
LSU Library's Guide to Scientific Style Manuals
Selected Scientists and Inventors on the Web (U of Central Florida)
NASA Punctuation Handbook
Emory University's Guide to Citation of Online Sources
Resources for Excellent Writing in Engineering
The HyText Haven for Technical Writing
Texas Tech University's links for Technical Writing
The University of Toronto Resource Page for Technical Writing

Resources Suggested by Penrose and Katz

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• BioMed Central
• The Electronic Library Programme (UK)
• An Annotated Bibliography of Professional Ethics for Scientists
• EurekAlert
• Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine
• The International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (IHC)
• Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
• Medline
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
• Pub-Med Central
• Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Rhetoric and Composition (Note: this site contains many links to sources of rhetorical information, journals, programs, and other professional organizations)
• ScienceFinder
• ScienceScholar
• UniSci
• Web of Science
• World Health Organization (WHO)

Last updated 06/28/05. You are visitor number to this page since May 1999.
Page maintained by Jo Koster, Winthrop University. I haven't checked all these links in some time, so please let me know if you get an error message if you try any of them.