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

AASWomen Newsletter for February 05, 2021

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of February 05, 2021
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]

Ada Carrera
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This week's issues:

1. AAS Code of Ethics and the Code of Ethics Committee

2. Early Career Astronomers & their supporters session on 28th of June 2021 - call for (suggested) speakers

3. PI Launchpad: Developing Your First Flight Mission Proposal

4. Asteroid naming contest sparks discussion of women in astronomy

5. Black History Month: Highlighting African-American Engineers, Pt. 1

6. Learn more about these 28 scientists for Black History Month

7. Job Opportunities

8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.

Announcement of DPS Workshop on Proposal Writing: Friday October 26th

The success of scientists depends upon their ability to obtain funding. Using Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) from NASA as a primary example, this workshop will focus on teaching the audience key points to writing a successful proposal.

Topics to be covered include:
8:00-8:15- General introduction and welcome
8:15-9:15- Proposal lifecycle, guidance on writing for specific audiences, compliance checklist
9:15-9:30- Break
9:30-10:30- Evaluation criteria, the review process, programmatic balance, debriefs and appeals, and making changes to address review concerns
10:30-11:00- General wrap up and group Q&A
11:00-11:30- One-on-One Q&A as needed.

Proposal Writing Workshops help early career scientists, as well as those looking to improve their previous proposal performance. As a result of this session, participants will be able to understand the proposal writing, reviewing, and selection process for federally funded proposals, as well as help those who have previously submitted proposals improve their performance. The workshop will be done in a format that allows for a great deal of audience participation.