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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 …

Greetings again. I hope that all is going well for you. My husband and I arrived back from vacation this evening. We had a very pleasant week. Highlights included visiting …

Hello! This week our featured resource is a collection of the first 25 AuthorAID Tips of the Week. This collection appears in the AuthorAID Resource Library. The first AuthorAID Tip …

[This week’s blog post is from AuthorAID community member Richard de Grijs, a professor at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, China. Richard has published many articles …

Be tactful in criticizing the work of other authors while justifying yours. Know that an author cited is a potential reviewer of your paper.

Greetings again. I hope that all is going well for you. A few days ago I returned from facilitating an AuthorAID workshop on writing grant proposals. This 4-day workshop was …