Powerful Poster Presentations
This entry was written by Sabine Göke, head of the radar group at the University of Helsinki in Finland. She was awarded the Spiros G. Geotis Prize for her first poster presentation at the 28th American Meteorological Society Conference on Radar Meteorology, Austin, Texas, USA.
PowerPoint Tricks You May Not Have Heard About
August 20, 2009 Filed under Featured, Presentations, Resources
Microsoft PowerPoint is so pervasive, yet discovering little tricks to assist your presentation are out there. Here is a list of the ones I find most useful or have great potential to be put to use by speakers.
Should I Write Multiple-Part Papers?
As editor and reviewer, I am often confronted by authors writing multiple-part manuscripts—linked manuscripts that have the titles something like this: “The Springfield Blizzard on 12 November 1978. Part 1: Observations” “The Springfield Blizzard on 12 November 1978. Part 2: Modeling.” These types of manuscripts rarely review well. Reviewers typically offer suggestions on where bloated […]
Quotes from Experts on Effective Scientific Writing
When I was writing Eloquent Science, I solicited my friends and colleagues for quotes to put in the book. I wanted the readers to get more than just my opinion about how to communicate effectively. So, I asked the community for other tips that I might have missed. I received more quotes than I could […]
Excerpt: Chapter 3: Writing an Effective Title
This is an excerpt from Chapter 3: Writing an Effective Title.