A Series on Scientific Writing

Greetings again. I hope that all is well.

Perhaps you remember the AuthorAID guest post by Thomas Annesley. It was titled Some Tips for Successful Publication. Advice from Dr Annesley also appeared in the blog post Guest Guidance on Graphs.

This week I received e-mail from Dr Annesley. It contained the following announcement to include in the AuthorAID blog:

Dr Thomas Annesley, deputy editor for the journal Clinical Chemistry, has written a series of educational articles on how to design and write scientific research papers for publication. These articles are intended to help authors, educators, researchers, training program directors, and other professionals write more clearly and effectively, thereby improving their chances for success. The articles are easy to read and humorous at times, yet are full of useful information and examples to illustrate important points.

Because the information will benefit individuals who are interested in scientific writing, Clinical Chemistry has made the entire series of articles free to anyone who wishes to access to them (http://www.aacc.org/publications/clin_chem/ccgsw/Pages/default.aspx). Translations into Chinese and Spanish are also available.

This series from Dr Annesley includes articles on preparing the usual parts of a scientific paper: Title, Abstract, Methods, Results, Discussion, and References. It also contains articles on preparing figures and tables. One special feature is an article on writing papers in the “sequential results format”, in which the Methods section is at the end.

I encourage you to look at this series, and I hope you’ll tell others about it. A link to the series now appears in the AuthorAID Resource Library.

Thank you, Dr Annesley!

Wishing everyone a good week— Barbara