{"id":655,"date":"2013-09-20T13:20:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyomingextension.org\/agambassadors\/?p=655"},"modified":"2013-09-20T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T19:20:23","slug":"manuscript-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/manuscript-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuscript Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-656\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-content\/uploads\/brekke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-656\" alt=\"Brekke Peterson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-content\/uploads\/brekke-228x300.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brekke Peterson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Outline, write, reference, edit and then edit and then edit some more!\u00a0 This is the fun of manuscript writing!\u00a0 It is funny to think that when I took English 1010 at Sheridan College in 2001 that I would reuse my English textbook to finesse my scientific writing manuscript skills!\u00a0 The process does help to better understand the research I have put my heart and soul into in the last three years but the editing is the most tedious part!\u00a0 I find myself writing a sentence that sounds great initially but as soon as I say it out loud the meaning is lost or the true subject is hidden amidst scientific jargon.\u00a0 When writing a manuscript editors indicate they want to hear the writer\u2019s (scientist\u2019s) voice but since science writing is simplistic and dry it is hard to embed one\u2019s personality in it.\u00a0 I find after the fifth iteration of a sentence my voice is gone and sometimes the original meaning has left too!\u00a0 It is key to start with a solid outline where the key ideas are laid out and stick to it.\u00a0 Some people prefer this manuscript writing part of a project; I prefer the field and lab work leading up to writing.\u00a0 Soon the current manuscript will be conquered and I will find a better method to editing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Outline, write, reference, edit and then edit and then edit some more!\u00a0 This is the fun of manuscript writing!\u00a0 It is funny to think that when I took English 1010 at Sheridan College in 2001 that I would reuse my English textbook to finesse my scientific writing manuscript skills!\u00a0 The process does help to &#8230; <a title=\"Manuscript Writing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/manuscript-writing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Manuscript Writing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ag-ambassadors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Le20-az","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}