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Paul Beaufait

Horizon Research Publishing | Home - 0 views

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    Current list of subjects includes: "Medicine & Healthcare, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Engineering, Social Sciences & Humanities, Business & Management, Computer Science & Mathematics, Materials Engineering & Chemistry, Earth & Environmental Sciences, and Physics & Information, Technology" (sidebar, 2013.07.22)
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Impact of Social Sciences - Your essential 'how-to' guide to writing good abstracts - 0 views

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    This London School of Economics and Political Science blog post provides "a structured set of suggestions for what an abstract should include, and what should be kept to a small presence" (¶1, retrieved 2014.12.22).
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Impact of Social Sciences - Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate ... - 0 views

  • A published paper has an abstract as a way for fellow researchers and students to quickly glance at whether the paper is useful for them. But an abstract is a very short, concise report of the research paper. A lay summary can expand on that and take the important information such as results and make them more prominent.
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    In this LSE blog post, Andy Tattersall explained the practice and merits of creating lay summaries to expand audiences and increase impacts of research.
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How to give a scientific presentation (PDF) - 0 views

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    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.
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Author Rights! | Kresge Physical Sciences Library - 0 views

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    In this post, Shirley Zhao points out a number of valuable resources for authors interested in publishing.
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Impact of Social Sciences - Say it once, say it right: Seven strategies to improve your... - 0 views

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    "Patrick Dunleavy outlines seven upgrade strategies for a problematic article or chapter: Do one thing well. Flatten the structure. Say it once, say it right. Try paragraph re-planning. Make the motivation clearer. Strengthen the argument tokens. Improve the data and exhibits." (deck, 2014.12.19)
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