For graduate students, undergraduates, and postdoctoral fellows
Fabulous Figures
Your guide to publication-quality figures in no time
- Learn what considerations about color can instantly make your figures and your paper look professional
- Understand what to do and what to avoid in making Fabulous Figures
- Discover how to transform 'OK' figures to great ones with ease
- Use the included checklist to 'declutter' your figures and convert them into publication-quality images
Some people just have great figures in their papers, in their talks, on their posters - they just seem to know how to make them. In the meantime, you're struggling with what to show and how to show it, what to do and what to leave out. Here's a reality check: making great figures does NOT depend on the tool you use! It's the principles that count. So let me show them to you in this guide.
Meet Julia
Hey! I'm Julia Koehler Leman and I'm the nerd who LOVES writing papers and teaching grad students how to do the same.
I'm a scientist in Computational Biology and software engineering. I have a PhD, done two postdocs, and even turned down faculty positions - but that's a story for another time.
After writing my first first-author paper in 2006, which took me FOREVER (18 months to be exact) in endless rounds of revisions, I realized that I must have learned something because my second paper took me 2 WEEKS to write, required minimal edits, and got a Best Paper Award! Since then, I've refined the process - my journal rejection rate is around 3% - and my papers are also getting published in high-impact journals.
I love mentoring and teaching grad students, undergrads, and postdocs like you to do the same, as I've done for over 15 years. My inofficial title for many years was "lab mom" - yep, that's me. ;) My passion is to make you successful through scientific communication because most people aren't getting the right support.
Are you ready to create some amazing figures for your paper or your talks? Then download the guide and learn how it's done.
