Writing Help

• General Writing Tips:
  • The Science of Scientific Writing
  • Writing for the AAPG Bulletin, we’re not literary giants, but we can try to be
  • Strategies for Helping Graduate Students Overcome Writing Challenges
  • Writing, Typing, and Economics by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Six things to do before writing your manuscript
  • 11 steps to structuring a science paper editors will take seriously
  • Writing the first draft of your science paper-some dos and donts
• Submitting a Publication:
  • Procedure for Submitting a Publication
  • Example Cover Letter
  • Example Letter to Editor (after review)
  • Example Response to Reviewers
• Presentations: 
  • How to Structure a Geofluids Presentation
  • GeoFluids & Hydrates Style Guide
  • Tips for a Good Presentation
• Help with Abstracts:
  • A Scrutiny of the Abstract by Kenneth Landes
  • A Scrutiny of the Abstract II by Kenneth Landes
  • Scrutiny of the introduction by Jon Claerbout
  • Instructions for linking figures in GeoFluids abstracts
• Help with Figure Captions: 
  • How to get only the first sentence of a figure caption in a figures list
• Writing Tips for Resumes and Cover Letters:
  • Chapters 7 and 8 from Joe Schall’s book Style for Students: Effective Technical Writing in the Information Age
• Help with Mathematics and Equations:
  • SI Units in expressing geologic time – IUGS recommendations (.pdf)
• Endnote:
  • Guide to using EndNote X9
• Using Group Digital Library for Publications & References:
  • The group digital library is located here: \shannon\All_Access\Library
  • In this folder you will see an endnote named “Flemings”. You can use this to search and find publications located in the All Access Library.
  • How to search for and open a publication:
    1. Open the endnote file Flemings
    2. Type your search term in the “Quick Search” bar, hit enter
    3. If the reference has a paperclip by the author’s name then the file is located in our library.
       1. Select the reference
       2. Right click, File Attachment, Open File
  • If you have publications you would like added to the library please save the pdf in the “To_Be_Added” folder.