Presentations
- Introduction
- How to Read Scientific Documents
- The Structure of a Paper
- Building your Corpus
- Effective Writing
- Focus on Language
- Corpus Linguistics
- Cover Letter
- Successful Presentations
- Academic PhraseBank by John Morley
- Polishing your Article in English: A Hands-on Approach
- Four-letter Words and Finishing Touches
- MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online), database compiled by the US National Library of Medicine and accessible at PubMed
- JAMA: For authors
- Reviews of Modern Physics - Guide
- Writing a Better Scientific Article
- White Paper: How to Write and Publish?
- Publishing your Research 101
- Author and Reviewer Resource Center
- Writing scientific articles like a native English speaker: top ten tips for Portuguese speakers
- How to get your papers rejected (or not)
- "Meet the Editors" Event (USP-SC)
- Articles in English
- Software Applications to the Health Sector: SLR
Books
- Writing Scientific Papers in English Successfully: Your Complete Roadmap by Schuster, Levkowitz, Oliveira (editors)
- The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (see 4th Edition)
- The Craft of Scientific Writing by Michael Alley
- How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper (7th ed) by Robert Day and Barbara Gastel
- Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers by Mimi Zieger
- Science Research Writing: A guide for Non-Native Speakers of English by Hilary Glasman-Deal
- Strategic Scientific and Medical Writing by Pieter H. Joubert
Corpora
- Brigham Young Corpora
- iWeb
- Corpus of Contemporary American English
- Tutorials:
- Components: Typical Introduction
- How to Write an Abstract
- Student Sample Annotated Corpus
- Tools available online. All these were developed at NILC (USP-Sao Carlos):
- Amadeus, tools to help non-native speakers of English write papers
- Scipo-Farmacia, a tool for writing scientific papers in English (in English)
- Scipo-Farmacia, a tool for writing scientific papers in English (in Portuguese)
- CALESE, computer-aided tool for learning English
- MAZEA, a tool for identification of the components of an abstract
Student's Corner
- Breakdown of a Technical Paper
- Designing a Conference Poster
- How to Keep Lab Notebooks
- Comics: Grammar
- Other Collections of Online Tools
English Writing Resources
- Purdue Online Writing Lab
- Ben Yagoda's links
- Dictionaries
- Punctuation
- Punctuation Matters, how to use hypen, n-dash and m-dash
- Punctuation and Footnotes
- Footnotes and Endnotes
- For Scientists
