Communications
==============

This page contains a collection of links related to scientific communications
(mostly writing).

- How to `strike the right tone in emails
  <https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/e-mail-13953985/>`_ when
  communicating with other scientists at various levels

- `Presenting, David Attenborough style
  <https://www.dropbox.com/s/j1vv2baheiduvip/David%20Attenborough%20talk%20technique%202018.pdf?dl=1>`_.
  Fantastic guidelines for giving a successful talk, taking inspiration from
  the famous nature show narrator.

- `10 simple rules for structuring papers
  <http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1005619>`_
  Required reading for writing papers.

- `How to write an abstract
  <http://s3-service-broker-live-19ea8b98-4d41-4cb4-be4c-d68f4963b7dd.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/ckeditor/attachments/7808/2c_Summary_para.pdf>`_
  Straight from Nature, how to write a summary paragraph for a paper in
  Nature.

- `MIT’s CommKit <http://mitcommlab.mit.edu/be/use-the-commkit/>`_
  A collection of guides for scientific communication, with lots of examples.

- `Writing a scientific paper, step by painful step
  <http://trophiccascades.forestry.oregonstate.edu/sites/trophic/files/Lafferty_WritingScientificPaper.pdf>`_