Additonal Resources and References

Additional Resources

• For a comprehensive review of English grammar, consult the Handbook of Technical Writing by Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, and Walter E. Oliu.
• For a more condensed and navigable overview of grammar, visit the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) at https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/index.html.
• To view the more detailed scientific writing lessons presented in the Essentials for Clear and Concise Writing section, visit the Duke University Writing Center webpage at https://sites.duke.edu/scientificwriting/.
• Similar scientific writing lessons are available on George Gopen and Judith Swan’s blog The Science of Scientific Writing available at https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/the-long-view/the-science-of-scientific-writing.
• Check the concision of your writing with the Simple Measure of Goobledygook (SMOG) Calculator at https://charactercalculator.com/smog-readability/.
• The CDC’s Public Health Image Library (PHIL) (https://phil.cdc.gov/default.aspx) contains useful public-health-related images.
• For assistance in translating public health language into more easily understood words, use the CDC’s Everyday Words for Public Health Communication Toolkit at https://www.cdc.gov/ccindex/everydaywords/index.html.
• The University of Michigan Plain Language Medical Dictionary (https://apps.lib.umich.edu/medical-dictionary/) similarly provides translations of medical jargon into everyday language.
• View Pope Tech’s Designing Accessible Data Visualizations video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcDyUm6WhLQ) for more detailed guidelines for designing data dashboards and other visualizations.
• For more detailed guidance on creating accessible data visualizations, visit Harvard’s Guidelines for Accessible Data Visualizations, Charts, and Graphs at https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/data-viz-charts-graphs.
• Check color contrast using Adobe Color accessible at https://color.adobe.com/create/color-contrast-analyzer.
• ColorBrewer (https://colorbrewer2.org) provides colorblind-friendly color palettes for data visualizations.
• The Web Accessibility Initiative’s (WAI) Tips for Designing Accessible Websites (https://www.w3.org/WAI/design-develop/) provides further advice for designing accessible webpages.

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