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Presenters University
An extensive resource for developing effective presentations with courses and tutorials covering content, delivery and visual aids. Includes a multimedia Centre with PowerPoint templates, clip art, and sound files to download.


Presentation Skills for Emergent Managers
by Gerard M Blair


TLC Seminar's on-line Presentation Skills Training


The Virtual Presentation Assistant
One of several Virtual Communication Assistants created by the University of Kansas.


Effective Presentations
The KU Medical Centre's on-line tutorial.


Presenting Qualitative Data
from The Qualitative Report.


Writing

The Elements of Style
by William Strunk Jr. A book from 1918 with advice still relevant today.


Psychology Writing Center 
from the University of Washington, includes handouts on Summarizing a Research Article and Writing a Psychology Literature Review


Grammar Handbook
Part of the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois. This Handbook explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage.


Online Technical Writing Course Guide
An online textbook from Austin Community College. Covers proposals, reports, document design, and many other topics.


Online Writing Lab
From Purdue University. This site contains a set of useful handouts


A Proposal Writing Short Course
A general guide from The Foundation Centre.


Writing for the Web

Open University's links to websites
Includes issues such as copyright, etiquette, email and publishing online.


Guide to writing for the web:  Producing Effective Content
A guide produced by the University of Sheffield.


The LSE's guide to writing for the web


Research Papers

Writer's Roost Online Writing Resources: Research Papers
This overview of research paper strategies focuses on the type of research paper that uses library resources. From the University of Kansas.


Writing a Research Paper
Part of Purdue University's OWL.


A Guide for Writing Research Papers
An American guide from the Capital Community College in Connecticut.


Abstracts

Preparing Abstracts and Annotations
A guide from the Myrin Virtual Library.


Processes for Writing Abstracts
A guide from the Writing Center at Colorado State University.


Writing an abstract
A guide from Cal Poly Pomona University.


Journal Articles

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
The requirements for manuscripts, including formats for bibliogrphic references agreed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.


Guide to writing feature articles
This is a guide to writing articles by the British Journal of Healthcare Computing - Information Management


Posters

Developing a Poster Presentation
A tutorial from the KU Medical Centre.


Creating Effective Poster Presentations
A guide from NC State University


Powerpoint Presentations

Creating an Effective PowerPoint Presentation
Tips to help you make better PowerPoint slides.


Websites

Steve Simon, of the Children's Mercy Hospital's own STATS page, which sets an excellent standard for online educational material.


Getting Published

Journals and Publishing Houses

The Steering Committee of the RCN Research Society are especially keen to encourage those who conduct or are involved in research to disseminate the fruits of their labours. This list is an attempt to help you locate potentially suitable journals/publishers for the research you are trying to publish.




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