Author Jody Plank, PhD
Dr. Plank received his PhD in Biochemistry from Duke University, where he studied double Holliday junction resolution by Drosophila topoisomerase IIIα and Bloom's helicase, and he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Davis studying DNA repair. For several years, Dr. Plank was also a Senior Editor at Bitesize Bio, a news and resource site for scientists, and he now serves as Senior Peer Review Analyst at the American Chemical Society.
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A Three-Phase Workflow for Efficient Manuscript Editing
Instead of our typical English editing tip, here is a full-length article describing a useful strategy for reading through a colleague's manuscript to offer suggestions. We hope that this post helps you the next time a friend asks you to look over a document!
by Jody Plank, PhD
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Abbreviations in Figures: Saving Space but Frustrating Readers?
The unnecessary use of abbreviations in figures can make a paper more difficult to read and may be particularly troublesome for journal reviewers.
by Jody Plank, PhD
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Figure and File Type Basics
One of the issues that can make generating figures for research papers challenging is the array of file types that must be dealt with. In this article, we break down the different types of files a scientist is likely to encounter and explain the strengths and weaknesses of each.
by Jody Plank, PhD
9 min