Competencies
Career & Professional Development
Communication
Effectively communicating scientific goals and achievements are crucial for securing funding and fellowships, in getting research published, in science advocacy, and in being competitive at the job market. Scientists communicate their work in many formats. Content, styles, and lengths of communication vary depending on the platform and the target audience. Therefore, engaging effectively both with fellow scientists and with the general public are equally important skills to hone. Graduate and postdoctoral training years serve as the ideal time for developing trainees into proficient writers and speakers. Written and spoken skill development requires time and practice as it carefully interweaves scientific acumen with communication competencies.
Communication Toolkits
OGPS Elevator Pitch Quick Guide
- Broad Institute CommKit
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Communication Toolkit
Digital Visualization
- Effective Graphical Displays – Jean-Iuc Doumont
Lay Talk Design and Presentation
Poster Design and Presentation
OGPS Poster Presentations Guide 2018
OGPS Poster Template (PowerPoint)
Additional Resources
- Designing Professional Posters with Illustrator – University of Michigan Library Research Guides
- Creating Effective Research Posters – Jean-Iuc Doumont
Scientific Talk Design and Presentation
Additional Resources
- Effective Oral Presentations – Jean-Iuc Doumont
- Giving Oral Presentations – Scitable by Nature Education
- How to Give a Chalk Talk – Edge for Scholars
- Preparing Your Academic Chalk Talk – By Ashley Rowland and Christina Szalinski, The American Society for Cell Biology
- Career Toolkit: Presentations – Nature Jobs
- “How to Give a Dynamic Scientific Presentation” – Elsevier
- “10 Tips on How to Make Slides That Communication Your Idea” – TEDBlog
- “6 Speaking Tips for Scientists and Engineers” – TEDBlog
Science Writing for Non-Science Educated Audiences
Teaching
- Communicating in the Classroom – Scitable by Nature Education
- Teaching Science to Nonscience Majors by Elisabeth Pain, Science Magazine
- Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT)
- Academic Innovation
Workplace Communication
- Writing Correspondence – Scitable by Nature Education
- Interacting During Conference Sessions – Scitable by Nature Education
Writing - Proposals, Manuscripts, Grants
- Introduction to Scientific Communication/Grants-Writing – University of Michigan Medical School Winter term, PHRAMCO 502
- Sweetland Center for Writing – University of Michigan
- Academic Writing Courses – English Language Institute
- Writing Scientific Papers – Scitable by Nature Education
- Effective Written Documents – Jean-Luc Doumont
- Modern Myths: Shortcomings in Science Writing – Jean-Iuc Doumont
- Intro to grant-writing resources and careers – a comprehensive resource by ASBMB
- Grant Writing 101 – Dr. Sharon Melgram, NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
- Ten simple rules for structuring papers – PLOS Computation Biology
- Scientific Writing and Publishing Online Course – American Society for Microbiology
- Grant Writing Online Course – American Society for Microbiology