Professional & Career Development
Online Professional Development Resources
The resources below can help you advance your graduate career and aid you in your professional and personal development.
Mentoring
- via National Postdoctoral Association
- USF Graduate or Postdoc Mentoring Plans (A.C.H.I.E.V.E. IDP and Mentor Plan)
Communication
General Writing Resources
- Writing Studio, ßÙßÇÂþ» - Graduate students can or review their online guides
- - Writing resources and instructional materials, including general writing mechanics, english as a second language, citation formats, and more.
- - Emphasizes the importance of understanding plagiarism by identifying several forms of it. Discusses the concerns of AI-generated content and the need to verify policies. Plagiarism checkers, citation managers, and writing tools as resources to prevent plagiarism and improve writing skills.
- Strunk and White, - Popular English grammar and style guide.
- - Discusses structuring and crafting literature reviews as well as basic genre conventions and strategies for organizing and drafting one.
Poster Design and Presentations
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- - Colin Purrington
- - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- - North Carolina State University
- Better Scientific Poster and - Mike Morrison, Industrial-organizational psychologist at Michigan State University
Oral Presentations
- - COMPASS Science Communication, Inc. (2017)
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- , Texas A&M University Writing Center - In this video, Dr. Tasha Dubriwny provides tips for developing and delivering creative and effective conference presentations.
- , Matt Abrahams TEDxPaloAlto Talk - Practical solutions to handle communication anxiety and tools to empower us to share our ideas and stories.
- , Mark Powell - Learn how to hook your audience with these tips for opening and closing presentations.
Scientific Communication, Writing & Publication
- - Online course that teaches scientists effective writing strategies, complete with examples and worksheets.
- , - Dr. Susan McConnell gives helpful advice on preparing and presenting an effective scientific talk, provides basics of PowerPoint, and suggests ways to structure your talk.
- , - A FREE online course on peer review, containing 4 modules with bite-size videos and interactive activities. It offers a comprehensive overview of peer review, including: the role of a peer reviewer, how to prepare a peer review report, the ethics of peer review, and innovations in different types of peer review. Free to access when you .
- - Online workshops and application-based training designed to help early career researchers design, implement, and analyze experiments to industry-leading standards.