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• 936 Write Before You're Ready: First Steps to Avoiding Writer's Block

  This Tomorrow's Prof. post provided "great advice on avoiding writer's block" (preface, ¶1).

  tags: academic writing outlines pre-writing revision Tomorrow's Professor writers writer's block

• How to give a scientific presentation (PDF)

  How to give a scientific presentation by Kevin D. Lafferty (US Geological Survey, UC Santa Barbara) Though these guidelines (Lafferty, n.d.) focused on outlines, slides, text, and style for _scientific_ presentations, they include plenty of advice useful for other sorts of presentations as well.

  tags: guidelines outlines presentations sciences slides

• How to write an effective title and abstract and choose appropriate keywords | Editage Insights

  "The title, abstract, and keywords play a pivotal role in the communication of research. Without them, most papers may never be read or even found by interested readers" (The title, abstract, and keywords: Why it is important to get them right, ¶1, 2014.01.23).

  tags: abstracts academic writing keywords writing

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