There are a few errors that I see consistently in the manuscripts and other projects I review. Sometimes an error gets reused so often that it’s not really clear what is and isn’t correct. This post covers a few of the more common errors that I see in the writing I review. The Apostrophe. I […]
The Personal Statement for Promotion Dossiers
ATTENTION: This series on the CV is from 2021 and may contain information this is no longer relevant or link to pages that have since moved. If you need editorial guidance, please contact our editor here. Hopefully you found some helpful tips for updating your CV after the last few posts, whether for promotion or just for […]
The CV: Annotated CVs for Promotion
ATTENTION: This series on the CV is from 2021 and may contain information this is no longer relevant or link to pages that have since moved. If you need editorial guidance, please contact our editor here. This is the next part in a series of posts on editing, styling, and formatting curriculum vitae. A number of faculty […]
The CV – Section IV: Service
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The CV – Section III: Scholarship / Professional Productivity, Part 2
ATTENTION: This series on the CV is from 2021 and may contain information this is no longer relevant or link to pages that have since moved. If you need editorial guidance, please contact our editor here. Next up, we’ll review subsections C through F under Section III, Scholarship and Professional Productivity. Section C seems to […]
The CV – Section III: Scholarship / Professional Productivity, Part 1
ATTENTION: This series on the CV is from 2021 and may contain information this is no longer relevant or link to pages that have since moved. If you need editorial guidance, please contact our editor here. This is the next part in a series of posts on editing, styling, and formatting curriculum vitae. The next […]
The CV – Section II: Teaching
ATTENTION: This series on the CV is from 2021 and may contain information this is no longer relevant or link to pages that have since moved. If you need editorial guidance, please contact our editor here. This is the next part in a series of posts on editing, styling, and formatting curriculum vitae. Section II: […]
The CV – Section I: Educational and Professional History
ATTENTION: This series on the CV is from 2021 and may contain information this is no longer relevant or link to pages that have since moved. If you need editorial guidance, please contact our editor here. Section I: Educational and Professional History For this series on CVs, I’ll use the basic Carver College of Medicine […]
The CV: Introduction
ATTENTION: This series on the CV is from 2021 and may contain information this is no longer relevant or link to pages that have since moved. If you need editorial guidance, please contact our editor here. This post is the first in a short series about the CV — that necessary annoyance for any academic […]
Reference formatting, in-text citations
Back in February I posted about selecting and formatting references in a manuscript. Since then I have noticed some other general styling concerns that persist regardless of a particular journal’s instructions. Always cite a source at the first mention of a source, not at the end of several sentences reporting information from that source. If you refer to […]