Welcome!
My name is Julie, and I am a professor with a PhD and a Doctor of Pharmacy. I founded the Scientific Writing Academy after years of receiving requests from colleagues and students to help them improve their scientific writing.
I vividly remember the first time I felt like I had found "my people." I was a first-year pharmacy student attending a graduate student meeting. There, I found a welcoming group of PhD students from around the world whose research and career interests matched my own. I was sold on pursuing a PhD and spent the next several years learning alongside my incredible colleagues.
Why the Scientific Writing Academy?
Throughout my time as a graduate student, my fellow students and professors alike complimented my scientific writing abilities. I was often asked to help write or edit manuscripts. I noticed that my international friends, for whom English was not their first language, often struggled with the same elements of English grammar in their writing.
After working in the pharmaceutical industry post-graduation, I felt a tug back to academia, where I now have the privilege of working with pharmacy and graduate students from around the world. I began noticing more patterns in students' writing: consistent challenges with specific elements of grammar, issues with organization, and difficulty optimizing their writing by balancing precision and brevity.
I noticed that available resources to improve scientific writing were often too comprehensive in their presentation of grammar, preventing students from having straightforward takeaways to improve their writing. They spoke about organization and sentence structure but presented few applied examples. They rarely address how to elevate writing to the "next level" by being both specific and concise.
I embarked on a mission to create a more effective and supportive way to equip non-native English speaking scientific researchers to efficiently improve their scientific writing. The Scientific Writing Academy, which includes both targeted course content filled with applied examples and a community of like-minded researchers with access to experts for accelerated learning and accountability, was born!
