Rising Scholars News

[This post is from Dr. Jitendra Prasad Mathuria, who attended the AuthorAID workshop held this year in Kathmandu, Nepal, and went on to organize a workshop in Pokhara, Nepal. Thanks …

Hello again! This week’s Resource of the Week became available at a very convenient time. This semester, one course that I’m teaching is titled Risk and Crisis Reporting. The first session …

Greetings again. I hope that all is going well for you. Here in America, many children are now starting their school year. Therefore many newspapers and magazines are publishing back-to-school …

Hello again! This week’s resource gives advice for making journal articles easy for search engines (for example, Google) to find. The resource, titled “Optimizing Your Article for Search Engines …

Do not cite a journal article if you have read only the abstract. Without reading the full paper, you cannot know the details. Also, some abstracts are not accurate.

Greetings again. I hope you’re doing well. As you may recall, applications for AuthorAID grants were due the end of last month. AuthorAID received many applications, and the selection committee …

Peer reviewing is important in research publication. However, few researchers have been taught how to prepare helpful peer reviews. Fortunately, some recent articles offer advice on peer reviewing. Let me …

Some authors write their first drafts as freely as possible without paying much attention to editing. Others write their first drafts by paying much attention to editing. Use the approach …

Greetings again. I hope all is going well. Earlier this month, during a trip to the Boston area, I visited the television station WGBH. I did so because a …

Hello again! This week’s resource is one that graduate assistant Alejandra (Alex) Arreola Triana mentioned. This resource, a book on scientific writing, is titled Manual de Redacción Científica. It is …