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Greetings again. A few days ago I returned from Ghana. I spoke at 2 workshops there: one on health reporting and one on research writing. The visit showed how by …

Hello again. This week’s resource is a set of 59 lessons on scientific English. These lessons can be accessed individually or as a single document. These lessons are …

Greetings! I work as the AuthorAID Training Coordinator at INASP. AuthorAID’s pilot e-learning course on research writing has just ended, and I have interesting results to report. First, some background: AuthorAID has …

For prestige, some authors want to list as co-authors some researchers whose publications are well known. However, researchers should be included as co-authors only if they have contributed substantially to the research.

[This post is from Texas A&M University student Jenny Russell, who is an editor of the Texas A&M undergraduate research journal, Explorations. Thank you, Jenny! —BG] It is never …

Hello again. Many members of the AuthorAID community want to find open access journals. A valuable resource is this regard is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ was …

Meeting deadlines sometimes is not feasible for authors. If an editor gives you a deadline for resubmitting a paper, but you cannot meet it, ask for an extension and ensure …

[This post is from Ravi Murugesan, AuthorAID training coordinator. Thank you, Ravi! —Barbara] Greetings from London! I’ve just returned from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, where I facilitated an AuthorAID workshop …

Hello again. This time the Resource of the Week is a website that I often use. Like many others in the AuthorAID community, I communicate with colleagues in a variety …

If possible, choose a research topic you care deeply about. After all, you will spend weeks, months, or years on it.