NISS Annual Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers at JSM 2023

DAY 3 IN-PERSON MEETUP AT JSM

Information about the in-person meetup at JSM and how to RSVP can be found here: https://www.niss.org/events/writing-workshop-and-gsn-networking-meetup-jsm

Once again this very popular short course will be hosted by NISS. This year it will be hybrid with virtual lectures and meetings with your mentor prior to the JSM on Friday 7/21 and 7/28, and an optional wrap-up networking meeting on Sunday morning 8/6 at JSM in Toronto, Canada. Support is also provided by the ASA and other sponsoring statistical organizations. If you are a recent graduate of a doctoral program and want to improve your communication skills - then this event is for you!

“Thanks for organizing the writing workshop! We are very glad that we attended the workshop. We learned a lot related to writing and got detailed comments on how to revise our papers. We are looking forward to other education programs provided by NISS.”

TARGET AUDIENCE

The workshop is designed for researchers with a Ph.D. awarded or anticipated during 2017-2023 in statistics, biostatistics or related field. Attendance in the Writing Workshop will be limited and applicants within 6 years’ post-PhD and members of the participating societies will receive preference. See testimonials from the evaluation at last year's event.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

The goal of the workshop is to provide instruction for junior researchers writing journal articles and grant proposals. Participants will be required to provide a recent sample of their writing, which will be reviewed by a senior mentor. The sample could be a current draft of an article to be submitted for publication or an early version of a grant proposal. Senior mentors will be former journal editors and program officers, who will critique the submitted material and provide individual feedback. Participants will be expected to initiate a revision in response with additional feedback from their mentors. Deadline for the Writing Workshop application submission is June 30, with notification of acceptance soon thereafter.

“The writing workshop was tremendously helpful! Thank you so much for organizing this workshop and helping us a lot. Thank you so much for sharing all the slides too. I am very grateful to take all advantages from NISS writing workshop.”

COURSE CONTENT

The workshop consists of two sessions plus a final meeting with the mentor. The first day is an all-day session that covers scientific writing, as well as how to organize a paper. It also discusses ethical issues, writing grant proposals and issues of journal choice and understanding and responding to reviewers’ comments. During this session, each participant meets with the mentor who analyzed a paper the participant submitted prior to JSM. The second session focuses on the specific issues covering the writing process and details of grammar, sentence structure and word choice, especially helpful for participants whose native language is not English. A panel of senior researchers will discuss their experiences with technical writing in English.

“Thanks for your thorough guidance in the NISS Writing Workshop! I found that the one-to-one mentoring is very helpful for us to get insights into our shortcomings in academic writing. I really appreciate your work in organizing such a wonderful event.”

HOW TO REGISTER        REGISTER NOW!

You can register by clicking on the link just ahead, but please note that you will need to submit a copy of your writing sample during this online registration.  This submission should be much more than simply an abstract. To register, click on the (Pre-Registration Information Webform) and please answer all questions! All submitted material will be handled confidentially! If you have trouble with the submission of your paper on the registration form, please send a PDF or Word version to officeadmin@niss.org after you have completed the entire registration form. Thank you!

Deadline: 5:00pm June 30, 2023 please reach out to rfreret@niss.org with any questions

COURSE FEES

Workshop applicants are asked to first register online by submitting their writing sample using the form above. If your submission is accepted, to confirm your interest in participation you will then be asked to pay the $250 registration fee after you have been accepted. You will be notified a few days after the deadline. 

Accepted Applicants: Will need to pay the $250 Registration Fee

MENTORS & SPEAKERS

Naomi Altman  –   Professor Emeritus of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University

Catherine Calder –  NIH Analytics and Statistics for Population Research Panel B (ASPB) Study Section Chair & University of Texas at Austin

Richard Cook –  University Professor and Mathematics Faculty Research Chair, University of Waterloo

Cheryl Eavey – Program Director at SBE/MMS, National Science Foundation

Susan Ellenberg – Emerita Professor of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Xuming He – Chair and H.C. Carver Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan; Past Co-Editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association

Peter Imrey – Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic & Case Western Reserve University, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2022 Reviewer of the Year

Nicholas Jewell – Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Galin Jones – Professor and Director of the School of Statistics, University of Minnesota; Co-Editor for Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Nicole Lazar – Professor of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University; Past Editor-in-Chief of The American Statistician

David Matteson – Deputy Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences; Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair of Statistics and Data Science at Cornell University; founding Editor-in-Chief for Data Science in Science

Edsel Pena – Program Director for Statistics at MPS/DMS, National Science Foundation; Professor of Statistics, University of South Carolina

Donald Richards – Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University

James Rosenberger – Director, National Institute of Statistical Sciences

William Rosenberger – University Professor of Statistics, George Mason University; North American Editor of Biometrics

Lingzhou Xue – Professor of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University; Associate Director, NISS