Rising Scholars News

Hello again. Our resource this week is an article that recently appeared on the website of the magazine The Scientist. The article is titled “How to Give Better Talks …

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 [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 …