Survey: Trainee attitudes towards scientific writing

<p>During March–April 2021, we used an anonymous Qualtrics survey to ask academic trainees (i.e., graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, hereafter postdocs) currently working at American and Canadian Universities within environmental biology fields about their publication records, career goals, challenges to writing, planning and scheduling writing, writing tracking methods, laboratory group (i.e., peers and advisor) involvement in their writing process, participation in writing accountability groups, demographic information, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their feelings towards writing habits and productivity. We were approved for IRB exemption under 45CFR46.104 and no answers could be linked to individuals or geographic locations, thus the survey did not track any personal identifying information.</p>