Rising Scholars News

Greetings again. I hope that May is starting well for you. Recently a student sought my advice on writing a cover letter. Sometimes researchers ask me what a cover letter …

Greetings again. I hope that all is going well. At our university, the spring semester will end soon. As usual, we’re inviting groups of students to our home for end-of-semester …

Greetings again. I hope that all is going well. As mentioned in the AuthorAID workshops, plagiarism (the use of others’ words or ideas without proper credit) is important to avoid …

Greetings again. Here in Texas, the spring wildflowers are blooming. Today we took some international students on a drive to see wildflowers. Most of this weekend, however, I’m working. The …

Hello again. Special greetings to those observing spring holidays (for example, Easter or Passover). Last week someone who attended the Sri Lanka AuthorAID workshop asked for advice on converting a …

Greetings again. I drafted this blog post in the Doha airport (in Qatar) while returning to the United States from Sri Lanka. Last week’s post contained information about the first 3 days …

Greetings again from Sri Lanka. As planned, an AuthorAID workshop was held here last week. The workshop attracted wonderfully diverse attendees. Most obviously, the attendees ranged considerably in age. Some had recently …

Greetings from Sri Lanka! I arrived here yesterday. While here I’ll be leading an AuthorAID workshop, attending an AuthorAID project meeting, and speaking at an INASP editorial workshop. Joining me …

[Note: Recently consultant Teresa Hanley evaluated the first 3 years of AuthorAID. In a guest post last week, Teresa presented some highlights of the evaluation. Below she presents additional …

[Note: Recently consultant Teresa Hanley evaluated the first 3 years of AuthorAID. In guest posts this week and next, Teresa presents highlights of the evaluation. Thank you, Teresa! –Barbara] …