Rising Scholars News

Greetings again. And belated good wishes to those who celebrate the festival Diwali. Last week I received a confusing piece of e-mail. In my inbox, the sender was listed just as …

Hello again. As you may recall, last time the Resource of the Week consisted of 3 US-based organizations for people writing about science or related fields. Soon afterward, an AuthorAID …

If you are publishing an article in a journal that prints authors' phone numbers as part of their contact information, consider providing your mobile phone number. Doing so may make …

Hello! Greetings from the American city Baltimore, where I’m attending the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) annual meeting. I’ll be giving a talk here about INASP projects, including AuthorAID. …

[This week’s post is from communications specialist Peter Thorpe, who recently facilitated an AuthorAID workshop in Zimbabwe. Thank you, Peter! —Barbara] It’s now almost 3 months since we facilitated an …

Hello again! Greetings from Rwanda, where an AuthorAID workshop just ended. The workshop was on writing proposals. I was the facilitator, and Ravi Murugesan (the AuthorAID training coordinator) was the …

If you want your work to reach multiple audiences, don't only submit it to a journal. After publication, talk about it through a variety of communication channels, such as social …

Hello! This week I’m featuring a resource that a graduate student of mine recommended. It’s a video titled “Publishing Strategies: The When-Where-What of Scientific Publishing”. This video, which is from …

If readers are interpreting your draft in more than one way, know that your paper needs to be written more clearly.

[This week’s post is from Ravi Murugesan, AuthorAID training coordinator. Thank you, Ravi! –Barbara] In late May, I was at the eLearning Africa conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. I …