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Hello again. As you may recall, the most recent Resource of the Week was an openly accessible textbook of statistics. In response to the post on this resource, 2 readers …

Writing book reviews for journals can be a service to your field. But before reviewing a book, ensure that you have thoroughly read its contents.

“Does anyone have a blog topic to suggest?” I asked one of my classes last week, after a student mentioned the AuthorAID blog. “Write about doing e-mail,” a student quickly answered. …

Greetings again. I hope you’re doing well. This week, an AuthorAID member requested a blog post on e-mail etiquette (polite behavior regarding e-mail). She especially wanted to know about following …

One strategy for writing concisely is to use verbs, not nouns made from them. For instance, instead of writing “Our paper provides an explanation of the problem," just write “Our …

Hello again. I hope you’ve been having a good week. At workshops and elsewhere, members of the AuthorAID community often say they want more information about study design and statistics. …

Greetings again. I hope you’re doing well. I just returned from Bangladesh, where I was giving a workshop on medical writing and publication. The workshop was organized by the Bangladesh …

Have you had the following experience? You’re reading an article, and you see an unfamiliar abbreviation. The article doesn’t define the abbreviation. But to understand the article, you must know …

If you submit a paper to a journal that says it normally contacts authors within a given length of time, but much more time has passed and you still haven't …

Greetings again. I hope you’re doing well. In writing about research, good organization is essential. In fact, as stated by scientific-writing expert Robert A. Day, “The preparation of a scientific …