Rising Scholars News

 [This post is from Caroline Cage, who recently provided a guest post about following people and institutions on Twitter. You can follow Caroline @C_J_Cage. Thanks, Caroline!  —Barbara] Hashtags (#s) signify …

Hello again. Our resource this week is a special issue of the journal Science. This issue, dated October 4, is titled “Communication in Science: Pressures and Predators”. It …

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We are pleased to announce the newest recipients of AuthorAID workshop grants. They are Dr. AMAM Zonaed Siddiki, of Bangladesh, and Ms. Edith Wakida, of Uganda. Dr. Siddiki is a …

“Happy Punctuation Day!” one of my graduate students wrote me last Tuesday. “Punctuation Day? What’s that?” I wondered. Wanting to find out more, I found the National Punctuation Day website …

Rabbits or turtles?

Hello again. Recently an instructor at another university sent me a list she had prepared of style guides and style manuals. I was pleased to see that a widely used …

At INASP, including AuthorAID, we believe in making our initiatives sustainable. For example, when Prof. Barbara Gastel and I facilitate research-writing workshops, there’s usually a train-the-trainer component. This component prepares …

[This post is from AuthorAID intern Dr. Daniel Scott, who played a major role in developing the new AuthorAID survey. I join him in encouraging you to complete this survey. …

A brief celebration