Welcome!
This guide offers an overview and resources on creating various types of science communication. Use the drop down menu to get started on making posters, infographics, research articles, and literature reviews.
Further down this home page, there are links to other guides that may help the writing process such as using a citation manager and copyright.
If you would like in depth support on these topics, please contact me by email or appointment!
Other pages coming soon are: grant writing, thesis and dissertations, and news, blogs, or public communications!
AI and writing
AI tools are still a developing technology. Use of these tools for writing, whether for assignments, research or scholarship, need to be guided by the university policies on the Responsible and Acceptable use of Generative AI. It is the author's responsibility to comply with those policies.
BioRender
BioRender is a web-based program that helps you create scientific figures using a library of over 50,000 scientifically accurate, expert-validated life science icons and templates.
If you belong to the below groups please contact kristy.nicholson@biorender.com to get access to a premium license.
- College of Pharmacy
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology
- Department of Biological Sciences
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
If you are not affiliated with any of the above you can purchase a premium license at a discounted rate at the webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=5778
Online Writing Guides
Libguide content credit
Final content and layout of these pages was done by Cristina Ligon in Fall 2023.
First draft of these pages (content and layout) was done by Megan Tideman in Fall 2022/Spring 2023.
