Felix's review of some pages (lmu-osc#412)

Co-authored-by: Pat <52056183+NeuroShepherd@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: nicebread

partners/becoming_institutional_members.qmd

@@ -123,25 +123,25 @@ format:
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             <div class="init-about__text">
                 <p>
-                  The interdisciplinary LMU Open Science Center (OSC) has the mission to promote and foster open research practices at the LMU and beyond. Open research practices encompasses e.g. preregistration of studies, sharing data, materials, analysis scripts for computational reproducibility, and providing the published results in an open access format. Overall, open research practices increase the transparency, efficiency, and credibility of research.
+                  The interdisciplinary LMU Open Science Center (OSC) has the mission to promote and foster open research practices at the LMU and beyond. Open research practices include, for example, the preregistration of studies, sharing data, materials, analysis scripts for computational reproducibility, and providing the published results in an open access format. Overall, open research practices increase the transparency, efficiency, and credibility of research.
                   The OSC has 4 lines of work:
                   <ul>
                     <li>provide peer-to-peer training</li>
-                    <li>build a community of practice to develop consensus and spread norms</li>
-                    <li> liaise with stakeholders to inform on the design of incentives and policies so they align with the adoption of open research practices</li>
+                    <li>build a community of practice to develop a shared understanding of the state-of-the-art best practices in a field and to spread norms</li>
+                    <li>liaise with stakeholders to inform on the design of incentives and policies so that they align with the adoption of open research practices</li>
                     <li>evaluate research practices across disciplines through meta-research projects</li>
                   </ul>
                 </p>
-                <h2> Benefits of becoming a Funding Institutional Member </h2>
-                <p>OSC Institutional Members that provide financial support get priority in the following activities:
+                <h2>Benefits of becoming a Funding Institutional Member </h2>
+                <p>Institutional Members that provide financial support get priority in the following activities:
                   <ul>
                       <li>seats in multiple-day intensive courses</li>
                       <li>seats in train-the-trainer programmes</li>
-                      <li> seats in short workshops offered during semester times</li>
+                      <li>seats in short workshops offered during semester times</li>
                       <li>consultations with graduate schools to integrate open research training in their curriculum</li>
                       <li>consultations with hiring committees to redesign their research assessment criteria</li>
                       <li>consultations to create public statements or internal recommendations for their teams</li>
-                      <li>grant writing consultations when applying for funds with open research requirements</li>
+                      <li>grant writing consultations when applying for funds with open research requirements, such as data management plans or code reproducibility</li>
                   </ul>
                 </p>
                 <p>

partners/externals.qmd

@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ hr {
 
           <div class="description-container">
               <div class="description-text">
-                  The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) works to improve the credibility of science by advancing transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics in research. The OSC has developped training material through small BITSS grants provided to our members.
+                  The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) works to improve the credibility of science by advancing transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics in research. The OSC has developed training material through BITSS grants provided to our members.
               </div>
           </div>
           <hr>
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ hr {
 
           <div class="description-container">
               <div class="description-text">
-                  The QUEST Center for Responsible Research (QUEST – Quality | Ethics | Open Science | Translation) of the Berlin Institute of Health strives to increase the trustworthiness, usefulness, and ethical accountability of biomedical research. The OSC regularly collaborates with trainers and meta-researchers from the QUEST Center, from contributing to our reciprocal Open Science Summer Schools, to collaboratively writing articles on e.g. research methodology training.
+                  The QUEST Center for Responsible Research (QUEST – Quality | Ethics | Open Science | Translation) of the Berlin Institute of Health strives to increase the trustworthiness, usefulness, and ethical accountability of biomedical research. The OSC regularly collaborates with trainers and meta-researchers from the QUEST Center, from contributing to our reciprocal Open Science Summer Schools, to collaboratively writing articles, for example on research methodology training.
               </div>
           </div>
           <hr>
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ hr {
 
           <div class="description-container">
               <div class="description-text">
-                  The Center for Reproducible Science and Research Synthesis (CRS) works to advance scientific methods, practices, norms, and incentives that produce trustworthy and reproducible research at the University of Zürich. Sharing similar missions, the OSC  exchange with the CRS on various topics, from day-to-day activities to strategic vision.  
+                  The Center for Reproducible Science and Research Synthesis (CRS) works to advance scientific methods, practices, norms, and incentives that produce trustworthy and reproducible research at the University of Zürich. Sharing similar missions, the OSC exchanges with the CRS on various topics, from day-to-day activities to strategic vision.  
               </div>
           </div>
           <hr>
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ hr {
 
           <div class="description-container">
               <div class="description-text">
-                  The Center for Open Science (COS) based in the USA was founded in 2013 to start, scale, and sustain open research practices in order to democratize access to research, enhance accountability to research integrity, facilitate the self-corrective process of science, and improve research rigor and reproducibility. The OSC uses many of the infrastructure provided by the COS to teach open research practices and many OSC members are COS ambassadors.
+                  The Center for Open Science (COS) based in the USA was founded in 2013 to start, scale, and sustain open research practices in order to democratize access to research, enhance accountability to research integrity, facilitate the self-corrective process of science, and improve research rigor and reproducibility. The OSC uses many of the infrastructures provided by COS to teach open research practices and many OSC members are COS ambassadors.
               </div>
           </div>
   </div>

partners/funders.qmd

@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ hr {
                       <img src="images/lmu_logo.jpg" alt="lmu-logo">
                       </a>
                   </div>
-                  <div class="member-grid-name">LMU Central Funding</div> 
+                  <div class="member-grid-name">LMU Project Funding</div> 
               </div>
           </div>
 
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ hr {
                         </span>
                     </div>
                     <span class="funding-project text-muted">
-                      Funding institutional members such as LMU Faculties and Clusters of Excellence provide the center with a yearly membership fee of a few thousand euros to get priority in our training programmes and consultations.
+                      Funding institutional members such as LMU Faculties and Clusters of Excellence provide the center with a yearly membership fee to get priority access to our training programmes and consultations.
                     </span>
                   </div>
               </div>
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ hr {
                         </span>
                     </div>
                     <span class="funding-project text-muted">
-                      Integration of Open Science training material in Psychology Curriculum
+                      Integration of Open Science training material into the Psychology curriculum
                     </span>
               </div>
           </div>

partners/institutional_members.qmd

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ format:
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 <div class="partner-container">
-  <p class="intro-text">We accept institutional memberships from departments, faculties, units, or central institutions of the LMU, which provide infrastructure or other services that facilitate the goals of the OSC.</p>
+  <p class="intro-text">We welcome institutional memberships from departments, faculties, or central units of the LMU which provide infrastructure or other services that facilitate the goals of the OSC.</p>
   
   <div class="partners-grid">
     <div class="partner-card" id="funding-members">
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ format:
     </div>
 </div>
 <div class ="becoming-partner-info">
-  <h2 class = "partner-subheading">Becoming OSC Institutional Member</h2>
-  <p class="intro-text mt-3">In practice, institutional members contribute as little as a statement of commitment to work towards the OSC goals - they then become Affiliate Institutional Members. Institutional Members are also encouraged to provide yearly funds to the OSC (depending on the size of the institution) - they then become Funding Institutional Members.</p>
+  <h2 class = "partner-subheading">Become an Institutional Member of the OSC</h2>
+  <p class="intro-text mt-3">With a statement of commitment to work towards the OSC goals - LMU institutions can become Affiliate Institutional Members. Institutional Members are also encouraged to provide yearly funds to the OSC (depending on the size of the institution) - they then become Funding Institutional Members, which have additional benefits.</p>
   <a href="becoming_institutional_members.html" class="member-info-button">Learn More <i class="fa-solid fa-arrow-up-right-from-square"></i></a>
 </div>
 

people/members.qmd

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ listing:
 }
 </style>
 :::{.osc-members-description}
-Our members actively support the goals of the OSC and contribute to all our activities such as training, community building, meta-research, liaison with stakeholders. [Join us](../about/joinus.qmd) <i class="bi bi-box-arrow-up-right"></i>.
+Our members actively support the goals of the OSC and contribute to our activities such as training, community building, meta-research, and liaison with stakeholders. [Join us](../about/joinus.qmd) <i class="bi bi-box-arrow-up-right"></i>.
 :::
 ## LMU Members
 

training/index.qmd

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   margin-top:0;
   margin-bottom: 0.8rem;
   text-align:center;
+  line-height: 1.4;
 }
 
 /*cards section styling*/
@@ -174,7 +175,7 @@ format:
     <div class="training-card"
       onclick="window.location.href='self_training.html';">   
       <h3>Self-Learning Catalog</h3>
-      <p>For researchers or students looking to learn how to implement a specific research practice.</p>
+      <p>For researchers or students who want to learn a specific open research practice.</p>
       <div class="training-content training-one">
           <img src="images/wordcloud.png" alt="wordcloud image of tutorial categories">
       </div>
@@ -220,7 +221,7 @@ format:
 
 ```
 
-Material used in our events (lectures, workshops, symposium, and summer schools) can be accessed below.
+Additional material that is used in our events (lectures, workshops, symposium, and summer schools) can be accessed below.
 <br>
 
 :::{.training-osf}