Resources

Downloadable Resources

• UTHSC Editorial Style - UTHSC Writing and Style Guide. 
• Tutorial: Using Readability Statistics to Enhance the “Reading Ease” of Your Proposal or Manuscript - This short tutorial will teach you how to use the readability statistics embedded in Word to calculate the Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level for your spell-checked text in manuscripts and grant proposals.
• "X" Model for a Grant Narrative - A brief explanation regarding the use of general to specific abstraction to improve your narrative transitions from an introduction to results/discussion to conclusion sections of a proposal or manuscript.
• How to Write Specific Aims - BioScience Writers. Michelle, S. (2015)
• Specific Aims Examples - Maintained by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for AIDS Research
• What Is Editing? - ThoughtCo. Nordquist, R. (2019)

Grant Writing Tips

• Tips for New NIH Grant Applicants - NIAID
• NIAID - NIH
• Applying for an NHGRI Grant through NIH - NHGRI (Human Genome Research)
• The Buck Starts Here
  By Karen M. Markin
  From the Chronicle of Higher Education issue dated February 21, 2000
• Choosing an Appropriate NIH Funding Instrument and Funding Mechanism - NIH
• Descriptions of the IRGs, Study Sections, and Small Business Activities of the Center for Scientific Review - NIH Center for Scientific Review
• Peer Review Guidelines and Information - NIH Center for Scientific Review
• Preparing Grant Applications - NCI
• Quick Guide to Grant Applications - NCI
• Resources for New Investigators - NIH Office of Extramural Research
• SBIR/STTR Policy and Grantsmanship Information - NIH Office of Extramural Research
• Words Worth Their Weight in Cash
  By Karen M. Markin
  From the issue dated April 8, 2005
• Vertebrate Animal Section - PHS Grant
• VAS Checklist

Other Online Resources

• iThenticate - A plagiarism detection service offered free of charge to UTHSC researchers.
• Sample Applications & More - Maintained by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health (NIH) (2017)
• Sample Grant Applications - Maintained by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences (2019)
• NIH Grant Applications: The Anatomy of a Specific Aims Page - Maintained by BioScience Writers LLC. BioScience Writers (2015)
• The Buck Starts Here - The Chronicle of Higher Education. Markin, K.M. (2005)
• How Your Grant Proposal Compares - The Chronicle of Higher Education. Stone, D.A. (2009)
• Becoming a Successful Principal Investigator - The Chronicle of Higher Education. Stone, D.A. (2010)
• Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors - Maintained by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (2018)

UTHSC Library Research Guides

The resource guide was created in collaboration of UTHSC Health Sciences Library and UTHSC Office of Scientific Writing (OSW), which can also be found on the Library’s OSW Research Guide webpage at https://libguides.uthsc.edu/scientificwriting.

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