WFA8000 Research Credits

Useful Resources

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Communications

Written

1. How to write a scientific paper
2. How to write and defend your thesis
3. Writing a Literature Review: Six Steps to Get You from Start to Finish ¹
4. The 5 pivotal paragraphs in a paper ²
5. Writing Manuscripts: The Alternative ‘Guide to Authors’ ³
6. Top tips for starting a new research topic: systematic quantitative literature reviews ⁴
7. Ten Simple Rules for Writing a Literature Review ⁵
8. Three Writing Tips From Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Jennifer Egan ⁶
9. From an Engineer to an Author, I Find These Writing Tips Really Helpful⁷
10. Advice on writing research articles⁸
11. How to Write a Publishable Paper as a Class Project⁹
12. Advice on Research and Writing: A collection of advice about how to do research and how to communicate effectively (primarily for computer scientists).
13. Rough drafts, getting words on the page, and the pain – and pleasure – of writing
14. Working Scientist podcast: How to write a top-notch paper

Oral

1. Making conference talks compelling and meaningful ¹⁰
2. How Google’s CEO Creates Brain-Friendly Presentations ¹¹
3. How to give a good research talk¹²
4. Put your take home message at the top of your slides!¹³
5. Memorize Speeches and Presentations Easier Using This App
6. Carpe Talk
7. The Art of Slide Design by Melinda Seckington
8. Presenting Effectively by Kieran Healy
9. 7 Tips for Presenting Bulleted Lists in Digital Content by Hoa Loranger
10. How To Give a Talk by David L. Stern
11. Building Your Data Science Network: Finding Community by Emily Robinson
12. Marketing for Data Science: A 7 Step ‘Go-to-Market’ Plan for Your Next Data Product by Erik Oberg
13. Top tips for giving an engaging talk¹⁴ mc1. Preparing the Thesis Proposal Defense¹⁵

Web

1. Find the Best Color Scheme for Your Website with This Guide ¹⁶

Media

1. A Video is Worth a Million Words: Why You Should Make a Video about YOUR Article ¹⁷
2. Make a trailer for your slidedeck with av

Analysis and modelling

1. Cartwright, S. J., K. M. Bowgen, C. Collop, K. Hyder, J. Nabe-Nielsen, R. Stafford, R. A. Stillman, R. B. Thorpe, and R. M. Sibly. 2016. Review: Communicating complex ecological models to non-scientist end users. Ecological Modelling 338:51-59.)
2. THe “Rmd first” method: when projects start with documentation
3. Supercharge your research: a ten-week plan for open data science¹⁸

Networking and meetings

1. Summer conference season advice¹⁹
2. Maximize Your Meeting: A Student’s Guide to AFS Meetings²⁰
3. Seven top tips for making the most of huge conferences
4. 13 Mistakes Not to Make When Attending a Conference²¹

Science

1. Inferential Science - What could go wrong²²
2. Better methods can’t make up for mediocre theory²³https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03350-5]

Goals and objectives

1. Here’s a simple trick to achieve your long-term goals ²⁴

Mentoring

1. My strategies for mentoring undergraduate researchers²⁵
2. Some modest and practical advice for undergraduate researchers²⁶

Field Sampling

• Better Safe than Sorry: Planning for Safe and Successful Fieldwork

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1. http://getalifephd.blogspot.com/2016/02/writing-literature-review-six-steps-to.html↩︎

2. https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/the-5-pivotal-paragraphs-in-a-paper/↩︎

3. https://methodsblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/writing-manuscripts/↩︎

4. https://www.iccs.org.uk/top-tips-for-starting-a-new-research-topic-systematic-quantitative-literature-reviews/↩︎

5. http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003149↩︎

6. http://lifehacker.com/three-writing-tips-from-pulitzer-prize-winning-author-j-1786507353/amp↩︎

7. http://www.lifehack.org/622355/x-hacks-to-largely-improve-your-writing↩︎

8. http://andrewgelman.com/2009/07/advice_on_writi/↩︎

9. https://gking.harvard.edu/papers↩︎

10. http://evol-eco.blogspot.com/2017/07/making-conference-talks-compelling-and.html↩︎

11. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwwYSZ0Tk↩︎

12. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/give-great-research-talk/↩︎

13. https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2018/08/27/put-your-take-home-message-at-the-top-of-your-slides/amp/↩︎

14. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01041-9↩︎

15. http://www.insidehighered.com/print/blogs/gradhacker/preparing-thesis-proposal-defense↩︎

16. http://lifehacker.com/find-the-best-color-scheme-for-your-website-with-this-g-1769424137↩︎

17. https://methodsblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/videos-about-articles/↩︎

18. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03335-4↩︎

19. https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/summer-conference-season-advice/#more-42767↩︎

20. http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ufsh20↩︎

21. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmajohnson/2014/09/22/13-mistakes-not-to-make-when-attending-a-conference/print/↩︎

22. https://evolutionnews.org/2019/04/inferential-science-what-could-go-wrong/↩︎

23. https://evolutionnews.org/2019/04/inferential-science-what-could-go-wrong/↩︎

24. http://alifeofproductivity.com/a-simple-trick-to-achieve-long-term-goals↩︎

25. https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2018/08/28/my-strategies-for-mentoring-undergraduate-researchers/↩︎

26. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bes2.1745↩︎

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