Tips for Writing

Nature recently published some tips and advice for honing skills in the thing we do nearly every day: write. 

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Check out the links below to learn how to write more successful grant proposals, more compelling letters of recommendation, better manuscripts (and manuscript reviews), and inspiring personal statements. Got anything to add? Share it in the comments.

• Secrets to writing a winning grant: Experienced scientists reveal how to avoid application pitfalls to submit successful proposals.

• Writing the perfect recommendation letter: Three experienced professors share how they triumph over this time-consuming task while sounding original and unique.

• Sell yourself and your science in a compelling personal statement: Don’t get bogged down in technical details, and balance the professional and the personal.

• How to write a superb literature review: Editors and working scientists with well-cited reviews share their suggestions for tools and techniques.

• How to write a first-class paper: Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers