Class 1, Part 2: Facing The Blank Page - Northwell/ZSOM Advancing ERSD - Putting It All Together (PIAT): The Art of Writing for Dissemination

Tools and Resources for Getting Started

Resources to Select Your First Choice Journal

Download the checklists below to answer these questions in detail and find the right fit for your manuscript. We'd like to acknowledge the Librarians at the UCF Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library: Getting Published LibGuide for their work.

Getting Published LibGuide
This LibGuide provides all you need to know about getting published and starting your author reputation off right from the start. Includes guidance on finding a journal that's the right fit for your manuscript, including PubsHub and JANE.

Resources for Literature Searching & Organization

PubMed Online Training
Links to videos on searching PubMed.

Good searching takes place in three broad stages: planning, searching, and follow up.

In the planning stage, you line up tools to optimize organization and think about where you can and should search. This merges into the searching stage, where you will try out your search strategy in different databases and refine, refine, refine! You will collect records along the way, but you don't need to get the full text of these articles until you start the follow-up stage where you screen the records, first cursorily, then carefully.

Literature Searching LibGuide
This guide provides basic information on searching for literature to support your scholarly communication.

Overview of EndNote Web
Overview of Zotero

Endnote LibGuide
This guide will help you setup and use EndNote Desktop and EndNote Web, allowing you to create correctly formatted reference lists with ease.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. The tool integrates with both Microsoft office and Google docs, and allows research teams to share and annotate PDFs.

Get started at Zotero.org

Books on to Help You Write in the Right Structure with the Right Team

Story, not study : 30 brief lessons to inspire health researchers as writers by Lorelei Lingard & Christopher Watling
ISBN: 9783030713638
Publication Date: 2021
The Craft section considers the grammatical and rhetorical tools of the trade, showing how they can be wielded for maximum impact. The Community section offers suggestions for writing collaboratively, supporting other writers, and navigating peer review. Each section features multiple short and pragmatic lessons, peppered with illustrative examples. Readers can use the chapters collectively to build holistic writing skills, or dip in and out to refine specific elements of the craft. And we hope to inspire researchers to face writing with joy. The many practical examples, tools, and exercises make an effective toolbox of support for scholarly writers. The inclusion of examples specific to the health arena and the clear, elegantly simple explanations add strength and relevance to this work.
The Scientist's Guide to Writing, 2nd Edition by Stephen B. Heard
ISBN: 9780691219189
Publication Date: 2022-02-08
The Scientist's Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists need to write more clearly, efficiently, and easily. Now fully updated and expanded, this incisive primer offers practical advice on such topics as generating and maintaining writing momentum, structuring a scientific paper, Chapters 1 and 2 assist with getting started. Chapter 7 provides insight into the tools of the trade to facing the blank page: Outlining, Wordstacks, Figure Shuffling, and Concept Maps.