Rising Scholars News

Greetings again. I’m now back from the Council of Science Editors (CSE) annual meeting. This year the meeting theme was “The Changing Climate of Scientific Publishing: The Heat Is On”. …

Greetings from Atlanta, where the Council of Science Editors annual meeting is about to begin. I hope that all is going well for you. As you may recall, last week …

Greetings again. I hope that all is well. As you may recall, last week I discussed writing cover letters. Now I’ll discuss another type of letter: a letter to the …

Greetings again. I hope that May is starting well for you. Recently a student sought my advice on writing a cover letter. Sometimes researchers ask me what a cover letter …

Greetings again. I hope that all is going well. At our university, the spring semester will end soon. As usual, we’re inviting groups of students to our home for end-of-semester …

Greetings again. I hope that all is going well. As mentioned in the AuthorAID workshops, plagiarism (the use of others’ words or ideas without proper credit) is important to avoid …

Greetings again. Here in Texas, the spring wildflowers are blooming. Today we took some international students on a drive to see wildflowers. Most of this weekend, however, I’m working. The …

Hello again. Special greetings to those observing spring holidays (for example, Easter or Passover). Last week someone who attended the Sri Lanka AuthorAID workshop asked for advice on converting a …

Greetings again. I drafted this blog post in the Doha airport (in Qatar) while returning to the United States from Sri Lanka. Last week’s post contained information about the first 3 days …

Greetings again from Sri Lanka. As planned, an AuthorAID workshop was held here last week. The workshop attracted wonderfully diverse attendees. Most obviously, the attendees ranged considerably in age. Some had recently …