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Write concisely. For instance, in the phrase "whether or not", the "or not" does not add meaning. Therefore, just write "whether".

Greetings from Washington, DC, where I’m attending the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Yesterday I gave a presentation here, titled “Writing …

Greetings again. I hope all is going well. This week I’m introducing 3 more resources. The first is a poster repository that I learned of this week. This repository, named …

When you quote a source in your article, you should triple-check the quote. Doing so may help you avoid putting "false" words into the mouths of those quoted. You should especially …

Greetings again. I hope you had a good week. Here in College Station, this week was unusually cold, with a low of 19 degrees Fahrenheit (negative 7 degrees Celsius). On …

Greetings again. For many AuthorAID members in East Asia or Southeast Asia, the lunar new year is about to begin. Thus, for example, on February 3 my colleagues in China …

[Note: A translation of this blog post into Spanish appears below the English version. My thanks to Alex Arreola for the translation.] [Nota: La traducción al español de esta entrada …