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Young Statisticians Writing Competition!
Are you a young statistician? Have you ever wanted to write and be published? Calling all budding writers and statisticians! Here is news of a competition that might get you started on a journalistic add-on to your statistical career - and all you have to do is write an article!
The competition is jointly hosted by the Young Statisticians Section of the Royal Statistical Society and by Significance magazine. The idea is very simple. So are the rules:
• Do you have an idea for an interesting article which would be suitable for Significance magazine?
• Have you always wanted to try your hand at writing in a more journalistic style?
• Are you good at interpreting data?
Then why not write an article and submit it to our competition? This is the first writing competition hosted jointly between Significance and the Young Statisticians Section of the Royal Statistical Society. Significance is published by the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association, and is for anyone interested in statistics and the analysis and interpretation of data. It is primarily a general interest magazine for statisticians, users of statistics and all those interested in statistics. It is not a research journal, and articles are not peer-reviewed. Look at past issues of the magazine for examples of the style, and the sort of content and technical level that we need; or, if you are not a subscriber, see the March 2011 issue which is available to view for free.
Your article should be accessible to a wide and non-specialist audience and should be about an area or application of statistics that is of broad relevance or has an important and topical application, in a way that lives up to both meanings of the tagline “Statistics making sense”. It should be between 1800 and 3000 words long and can include tables, figures and photographs. The style should be clear and easy to read – avoid the formal layout of an academic report – and technical terms and mathematics should be used sparingly if at all, and suitably explained. End references are optional, but should be limited to three or four at most.
Anyone is welcome to enter, regardless of membership or affiliation. The only stipulation is that you should be “young” (in career terms, not necessarily in age) – that is, you must be a student or within the first 10 years of your career. The article could be on work that you have done, or it could explain the work of others.
Only submissions in English will be considered. Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration for publication elsewhere, though we welcome magazine articles based on work in theses or in papers that have been submitted to or accepted by academic journals, provided the two are sufficiently different. The closing date for entry is 1st March 2012. All articles will be assessed by a review committee made up of representatives from both the Young Statisticians Section and Significance. The winning article will be published in Significance. Runner-up articles will be published on the Significance website, or in Significance at the editor’s discretion.
Please email your submissions, in Word or as a PDF file, to [log in to unmask] We hope you enjoy writing your piece - and we look forward to reading your entry.
Laura Gray, RSS Young Statisticians Section; Julian Champkin, Significance.
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