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Writing an effective abstract in few words is not easy. If a draft of your abstract exceeds the maximum allowed word count, consider "pruning" the background of the study and …

Greetings again. I hope the past week has gone well for you. Please note that I said “well”, not “perfectly”. Probably no one can have a perfect week. For me, …

This week I learned of a resource on English-language pronunciation. This resource might especially help non-native users of English who want to speak English as clearly as possible—for example, to present papers …

If you are reading papers and see that certain authors are cited repeatedly, consider reading some papers by those authors. Frequent citation is often a clue that authors are leaders …

[This post is from Dr. Jitendra Prasad Mathuria, who attended the AuthorAID workshop held this year in Kathmandu, Nepal, and went on to organize a workshop in Pokhara, Nepal. Thanks …

Hello again! This week’s Resource of the Week became available at a very convenient time. This semester, one course that I’m teaching is titled Risk and Crisis Reporting. The first session …

Greetings again. I hope that all is going well for you. Here in America, many children are now starting their school year. Therefore many newspapers and magazines are publishing back-to-school …

Hello again! This week’s resource gives advice for making journal articles easy for search engines (for example, Google) to find. The resource, titled “Optimizing Your Article for Search Engines …

Do not cite a journal article if you have read only the abstract. Without reading the full paper, you cannot know the details. Also, some abstracts are not accurate.

Greetings again. I hope you’re doing well. As you may recall, applications for AuthorAID grants were due the end of last month. AuthorAID received many applications, and the selection committee …