Vision Science: Writing

Write freely. Try to silence your internal critic.  

Have a rigid writing schedule.

Find social support. One colleague could review your draft for content and a second colleague for language.

More tips:

• Writing your journal article in 12 weeks: a guide to academic publishing success / Wendy Laura Belcher.
• How to write and publish a scientific paper / Barbara Gastel and Robert A. Day
• How to write better medical papers / Michael Hanna
• Practical tips for publishing scholarly articles: writing and publishing in the helping professions / Rich Furman, Julie T. Kinn.
• Getting it published: a guide for scholars and anyone else serious about serious books / William Germano.

Are you looking to improve your technical and scientific communication skills in English? These resources may help:

• IEEE English for Technical Professionals - interactive online course to advance technical communications skills
• Oxford Dictionaries - bilingual dictionaries including English to Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish
• Science research writing for non-native speakers of English (ebook) / Hilary Glasman-Deal - World Scientific Press
• Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing: engineering and the technical sciences (print) / Margot Northey and Judi Jewinski - Oxford University Press
• Scientific writing in a second language (print) / David Ian Hanauer and Karen Englander - Parlor Press
• Toward speaking excellence: the Michigan guide to maximizing your performance on the TSE test and other speaking tests (print) / Dean Papajohn - University of Michigan Press
• Writing science in plain English (print) / Anne E. Greene - University of Chicago Press

The campus offers a few writing support services:

• Graduate Writing Center, Berkeley Graduate Division - Offers workshops, writing groups, and individual consultations
• Student Learning Center - Offers workshops, appointments, and drop-in help