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courses, workshops, consultationsand more for
SUCCESSFUL SCIENTIFIC WRITINGmanuscripts • articles • proposals
LEARN6 Essential Steps
to AchieveRESULTS
Questions? Please contact [email protected]/writing/wse
Writing in Science & Engineering
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Got data?...Get started!
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Writing in Science & EngineeringAn Initiative of the Princeton Writing Program
get funding
get published
present data visually
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WSE offers courses, workshops, and one-
on-one consultations to support writers
who work with data, including scientists,
engineers, and quantitatively oriented
social scientists in economics, sociology,
and adjacent disciplines.
Our resources can help give you a compe-
titive edge in obtaining funding, getting
published, understanding the scientific
literature, presenting data visually, designing
posters for conferences and much more.
Half-term Courses for Graduate Students
WRI 501: Reading & Writing about Scientific Literature
WRI 502: Writing an Effective Research Article
Workshops on Proposal Writing
Writing Center Conferences
Writing Groups
Writing Bootcamps
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Teaching Opportunities
Consultations with Faculty
Writing in Science & Engineering (WSE)is here to support your success.
WSE offers manuscript development from raw data
to published work. Our courses, seminars, work-
shops and one-on-one consultations focus on you
to guide you through...
6 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL SCIENTIFIC WRITING
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You’ve got data...Now what? Get Started!
STEP 1: VISUALIZEVisualize your data as informative figures, texts, and images
STEP 2: ANALYZEAnalyze the evidence to establish your results
STEP 3: COMPOSECompose a full working draft � data, analysis, and interpretation � and position the argument within the field
STEP 4: NEGOTIATENegotiate with co-authors for the final draft, respond to reader feedback, develop best practices of collaboration, and anticipate reviewer critique
STEP 5: CRYSTALLIZECrystallize the working draft into a condensed high impact submission
STEP 6: SENDOFFGo! Submit your revised manuscript to conferences and journals
“I view these courses as absolutely essential components of a graduate education.” � Emily Carter, Ph.D. Founding Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Aerospace and Applied and Computational Mathematics
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