AuthorAID mini-workshop at the conference Changing Perspectives of Management: Revisiting the Existing Paradigms and Exploring New Frontiers (held in Kathmandu, Nepal, 10-12 March 2011). Main topics: ensuring that research is publishable, choosing a suitable journal, following the instructions to authors, structuring a journal article, understanding the review and publication processes, writing effectively in English, and learning more: some resources. Listed resources include some specifically on writing articles about management research. Images have been removed from presentation to keep files small. PDF and PowerPoint versions of presentation appear in the AuthorAID Resource Library.

Series of articles on scientific writing, from the journal Clinical Chemistry. Includes articles on preparing the usual parts of a scientific paper: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and References. Also includes articles on preparing figures and tables. A special feature is an article on writing papers in the “sequential results format”, in which the Methods section is at the end. Translations into Chinese and Spanish are available.

Text slides from presentation given at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Presentation given at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Online guide from the Nature Publishing Group.

Tutorial from the Foundation Center. Includes versions in English, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. Focuses mainly on applying for funds from private foundations for service projects. Includes many ideas, however, that also pertain to seeking research grants from various sources.

Resource providing guidance on qualititative research; emphasizes analysis of data from such research. Includes texts, case studies, videos, resource lists, and more. Also has links to glossaries. Discusses software that can help in qualitative data analysis.

Application instructions for a grant to help a developing-country researcher attend the summer 2011 intensive course in research writing to be held at Texas A&M University. Instructions include list of eligibility requirements. Application deadline is 18 January 2011.

Tentative syllabus for a 3-to-4-week intensive course in research writing, to be held at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, starting 27 June 2011. An AuthorAID grant is available to help a developing-country researcher attend this course. Application deadline for the grant is 18 January 2011.