2016 Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers in Statistical Sciences

该奖项支持参加2016年7月和8月在伊利诺伊州芝加哥市举行的联合统计会议研讨会的初级研究人员。讲习班的重点是为统计科学领域的新研究人员提供有效的技术写作，这些研究人员寻求发表他们的研究成果或以联邦基金资助提案的形式提出他们的研究计划。研究人员，特别是新的研究人员，往往难以传播他们的研究成果，不是因为研究的质量，而是因为为特定研究选择了不适当的出版场所和/或因为向选定的读者提供技术材料的方式不佳。国家统计科学研究所和美国统计协会将管理该讲习班。这个讲习班将以指导会议开始，讨论技术文章或拨款申请材料的组织、技术写作技巧以及统计科学主要期刊的具体任务和读者。在介绍性教程之后，每位参与的新研究人员将在一位经验丰富的期刊编辑的指导下，在新研究人员的工作草稿中以个性化的方式解决这些问题。导师将根据该指导意见进行修改，以确保新研究员在提交文章或资助提案进行审查之前成功地实施了写作技巧。有关该活动的更多信息可在http://www.amstat.org/meetings/wwjr/index.cfm?fuseaction=main上找到。该奖项由美国国家科学基金会数学科学部的基础设施和统计项目共同支持。

This award supports the participation of junior researchers in a workshop held at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago, Illinois in July and August 2016. The workshop focuses on effective technical writing for new researchers in the statistical sciences, who seek to publish their research or to present their research plans in the form of grant proposals for federal funding. Researchers, especially new researchers, often have difficulty disseminating their research results not because of the quality of the research but rather because of inappropriate choices of publication venues for the particular research and/or because of poor presentation of technical material to the chosen audience. The National Institute of Statistical Sciences and the American Statistical Association will manage the Workshop. This workshop will open with tutorial sessions on the organization of material for a technical article or grant application, on technical writing techniques, and on the specific missions and audiences of key journals in the statistical sciences. Following the introductory tutorial, each participating new researcher will work individually with an experienced journal editor as mentor to address these issues on an individualized basis in a draft of the new researcher's work. Revisions following this guidance will be critiqued by the mentor to assure that the new researcher's implementation of writing techniques has been successful before the article or the grant proposal is submitted for review. More information about this activity can be found at http://www.amstat.org/meetings/wwjr/index.cfm?fuseaction=main. This award is jointly supported by the Infrastructure and Statistics programs in the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences.