To be a productive scientist and scholar, you need to write well. Good scientists are constantly working to proficiently and effectively communicate their ideas, and bad writing can kill the ...

Courtney Peña-Lima is an associate director at the Biosciences Grant Writing Academy at Stanford University in California and a writing instructor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Troy ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's time to step my game up. I mean that ...

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After receiving my first independent NIH grant in 2017, I was asked to serve as a reviewer on study sections. Since then, I have reviewed hundreds of grants for federal agencies, including NIH.