Editing in Motion

Faculty and their student and postdoc co-authors are invited to participate in this workshop for research groups on scientific writing skills for science journals and grants. 

During the workshop, attendees will practice their editing skills using the 6 techniques discussed in the Writing Tricks of the Trade workshop on others' abstracts—and on what can be more challenging—their own abstracts.  The instructor will then provide additional detailed comments and new techniques.  The atmosphere is constructive, safe, and fun.  Research teams will have the opportunity to work together on the team abstracts.  The abstracts will not include author information, and can consist of previously published abstracts (i.e., don’t let the stress of writing a new abstract get in the way of submitting an abstract at all, it’s more important to submit one and get the practice using the editing skills).   

Priority will be given to research teams that participated in the April workshop. Faculty member participation is required for research teams to attend. 

Michaela Kiernan, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Scientist at the Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She received her PhD in social/health psychology from Yale University and has expertise in research methodology and statistics.  Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Heart Association (AHA), her research focuses on behavioral interventions for weight management, dietary change, and physical activity. She was a grant reviewer for the AHA Western States Affiliate Behavioral Science, Epidemiology, and Prevention Review Committee (2000-2003) and a standing member of the NIH Psychosocial Risk and Disease Prevention Study Section (2009-2012).  She was the Research Director for the Stanford University School of Medicine Community Health Scholarly Concentration for medical students and a consultant for the Center of Excellence Minority Faculty Development Program (2001-2007).  In 2002 and 2007, she was awarded the SPRC/Department of Medicine Divisional Teaching Award, and, in 2009, the Stanford University Postdoctoral Association Excellence in Mentoring Award.

Space is limited and early registration of all participants is encouraged.  The faculty lead of the research group is required to attend, plus any number of his/her research team (graduate students and postdoctoral scholars).