General Skills

• Taking meeting minutes

• Creating an annotated bibliography

• Making a poster for a scientific conference

• Making a useful README file for research projects

Working with auditory stimuli and sound files

• Recording auditory stimuli

Career

• Making a CV

Career and grant advice

• Drugmonkey's blog is a wealth of fantastic advice. One of my favorites.

Writing

• People sometimes give Strunk & White's Elements of Style a hard time, but it has a lot of good advice and is a great place to start.

• For people at Wash U, the Writing Center is a free resource (located on the Danforth campus) providing both classes and one-on-one tutoring.

• The Clinical Chemistry Guide to Scientific Writing has good general advice.

• Science and the English Language applies some advice from George Orwell's essay Politics and the English Language (also well worth reading) to scientific writing.