Manuscript & Grant Writing

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This comprehensive course will focus on the fundamentals of preparing a manuscript for publication and writing and submitting grant proposals. Manuscript writing training will include scientific writing skills, crafting a narrative, writing an effective abstract, introduction compared to discussion sections, data visualization techniques, how to identify the appropriate journal for submission, guidance for authorship, and details about article submission, the peer review process, revisions, and response to reviewers and editors. Grant writing training will include the mechanics of proposal writing and aspects of “grantmanship” as students identify appropriate sources of grant funding, use narrative tools to create informative, persuasive and engaging proposals, creation of Aims that outline the goals of the grant, and support of Aims with well thought out research design. Grant submission process such as creation of facility and budget sections will be discussed. This course will include online asynchronous lectures, online group discussions, weekly readings, and a final draft of the research manuscript as the final assignment. There will be synchronous weekly hour-long online group meetings to discuss research progress.