Research Hub: Resources and Help
Resources for research support, scholarly communication, writing, publishing, and career development.
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Infographic: Proofreading Checklist
Source: The Write At Home Blog
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Funding Opportunities Databases from Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University offers free, downloadable and continuously updated repositories of federal and private funding opportunities. The opportunities are pre-sorted chronologically and alphabetically, and can be searched by funding amount and subject matter.
Funding Opportunities
General Writing Help Tools
- Hemingway EditorA free copy and paste app that highlights common errors and suggestions corrections.
- Proofread BotProofread Bot improves your communication by checking your writing for style, grammar, statistic and plagiarism issues.
- Academic PhrasebankThe Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation.
- Citation MachineWith your inputted data generates standard bibliographic and in-text citations for MLA, APA, Turabian, and Chicago.
Grant Writing Resources
- 10 Tips for Successful Grant WritingFrom The Chronicle of Higher Education
Writing Help
- Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)Purdue's Online Writing Lab offers detailed guidance for citation formatting (MLA, APA, and Chicago).
- UC Berkeley Academic Writing TipsThis resource offers a simple list 9 ways to improve your writing. Other pages accessible from this link include editing, revision, and citation guides.
- Harvard College Writing CenterProvides strategies for essay writing and other helpful guides.
Infographic: How to write better science papers
Source: Elsevier
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