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Using Word to Write your Thesis: Creating an Outline
…at least one student’s write up less stressful, I’ve created several posts that will show you how to use Microsoft Word‘s advanced functions to write your thesis. Today’s topic starts…

Using Word to Write your Thesis: Making a Table of Contents, Inserting Captions, and Cross-referencing
In the last post on thesis writing tips for Word, I showed you how to make an outline for your thesis in Microsoft Word. You should now have a document…

Using Word to Write Your Thesis: Miscellaneous Bits and Bobs
…was! Wrapping Up Our Tips for Writing Your Thesis in Word Hopefully, this series will prove useful to those of you squaring up to the challenge of writing a thesis…

Top 5 Tips for Maintaining Your Sanity During Thesis Writing
…it. It’s the thought of attempting to write up 4+ years of work into a single cohesive thesis! The thesis writing process can vary greatly between students; some people love…

5 Tips to a Faster Thesis Using Labguru
…horror stories of students trying to rush their thesis, only to fail their defense, have to rewrite a thesis or delay graduation, which just exacerbates the stress. Tip: use Labguru’s…
Read MoreUsing Word to Write your Thesis: Creating a Master Document
…some time-saving tips for using Word for thesis writing. Originally published October 29, 2014. Reviewed and updated on December 2, 2020 **Note: All screenshots taken from Word for Windows, 2019….

How to Write Your Thesis Right
…picked up during my thesis write-up that might help to make the process that little bit easier. Back up This is probably the advice most often given to PhD students,…

The Easier Way to Write a PhD Thesis
…research, and write a competent PhD thesis. Your supervisor is only there to guide and mentor you, no matter what you, or s/he, might think. 2. Keep Good and Accurate…

A CRISPR Approach to Immuno-Oncology
…to overcome these limitations. Ex-Vivo Editing of T Cells as a Therapeutic Strategy The primary challenge to using therapeutic antibodies is the constant deactivation of the immune response by cancer…

How to Start Using Coding to Automate Image Analysis Part 2: Batch Processing Multiple Images
…work – smarter spreadsheets & databases using VBA, advanced data manipulation using R, Matlab or SPSS, or revamp your blogs & webpages using JavaScript. Finally, just remember this: it’s software,…

An Easy Way to Start Using R in Your Research: Exploratory Data Analysis
…using these to make sure your dataframe looks like you expect it to. str(my_data) This one is very important. It shows you the ‘structure’ of your data, in other words,…

Why You Should Dedicate Time to Write Detailed Protocols
…process and write out your own? I’ll give you three reasons why. 1. You Will Make Changes to This Protocol Even if you are doing the exact same experiment, you…

Excelling With Excel: Analytical Method Validation Using LOD and LOQ
…importance in method validation, and finally a quick method to calculate these values using Excel. What Are LOD and LOQ? LOD and LOQ mean exactly what these terms suggest. They…

Crafting Multi-panel Images Into Figures
…place them in the appropriate place using the move tool. Once here you can resize the panel to better fit your space using the scale tool (Shift + T) –…
Read MoreMake Better Figures Faster Using Illustrator
…guide to using Illustrator for scientific figures the following sites might be useful: http://www.mmc.med.ed.ac.uk/useful-info/illustrator/ http://www.virology.wisc.edu/acp/tutorials/SciIllustration.pdf Let us know if you have any other quick tips for using Illustrator, or if…

Imaging and Analyzing Your Wound Healing Assay
…are good enough to track gap closure over time. In some specialized cases, fluorescent labelled dyes for tracking two different cell populations or using a transgenic labelled cell line to…

A Beginner’s Guide to How Blunt-End Cloning Works
…blunt end fragments. (1) The vector is linearized; (2) The vector is dephosphorylated using phosphatase or by amplifying using primers lacking 5’ phosphate groups; (3) The vector is cut with…

Five Easy Ways to Reduce Word Count
…to result in shorter sentences. Here’s an example: DNA from the seedlings was amplified using PCR. Let’s try: We amplified seedling DNA using PCR. We just saved a couple words…

Book review: ‘How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper’ by Robert A. Day and Barbara Gastel
…in general. Then I’ve heard that our PI had told him to write a draft of his first paper and had an idea why he became unhappy. Many a PhD…

How to Choose the Correct Reverse Transcription Method
…oligo-dTs may not give the same result as priming using random hexamer primers. Therefore, you should use the same conditions for each RT reaction. In addition when using SYBR chemistry…
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