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If others have provided help with your paper but do not qualify as authors, thank them in the acknowledgments. However, before doing so, obtain their permission.

[This post is from Geetha Udayangani Kulasekara, a lecturer at the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). Geetha received an AuthorAID grant to take part in a conference in Japan. …

Hello again. When looking at journals, we usually focus on the research articles. However, the journal cover (or its online equivalent) can be worth mentioning. Different journals have different kinds …

To help make your writing readable, in general avoid very long sentences and paragraphs.

Greetings again.  I hope that all is going well. This week I gave postdoctoral fellows and others at our medical school a presentation on writing journal articles. Afterward, an assistant …

Hello again. Welcome to the second year of Resource of the Week. This week I received e-mail from someone at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)/Centre de recherches pour …

If you find it difficult to begin, continue, or complete a writing project, consider setting aside times for your writing. Choose the times of day according to when you function …

Hello again. As you may recall, a recent AuthorAID blog post provided advice on writing recommendation letters. The post described a structure for recommendation letters. In a comment, an AuthorAID …

Greetings again. I hope you’re doing well. Last week a postdoctoral fellow suggested that I write something about preparing minutes of committee meetings. He said that as a graduate student …

If you see writing as torture, writing will torture you. Have fun writing your scholarly articles.