Featured Resources
Toolkit:A guide to starting and running an AuthorAID journal club
In this guide, we outline the steps to starting and running your own AuthorAID journal club and share learning from our existing journal clubs.
Toolkit:AuthorAID Research Writing Toolkit
Resources to run a participatory research writing workshop at your institution.
Video:"Get Lit: The Literature Review"
Video of presentation on preparing the literature review section of a thesis or dissertation. One of the most popular videos on our online research writing courses
Toolkit:Gender Mainstreaming in Higher Education Toolkit
This toolkit has been developed for facilitators who are interested in introducing gender mainstreaming in higher education in order to challenge gender inequality.
Toolkit:AuthorAID Training of Trainers toolkit
Resources to run a training of trainers in research writing workshop at your institution.
Resource Library
Presentation:Preparing Winning Poster and Oral Presentations
PowerPoint presentation on basics of preparing effective poster presentations and oral presentations.
Toolkit:Facilitation Kit: Writing a Journal Article Reporting Research
This kit consists of nine modules, each containing a PowerPoint presentation and a set of facilitator notes. The notes expand on the content of the slides and provide guidance in facilitating the module, which combines presentation and small-group work.
The topics of the modules are
- The Structure of Journal Articles
- Titles and Authors
- Writing an Abstract
- Citing References
- Writing the Introduction
- Writing the Methods Section
- Writing the Results Section
- Preparing Tables and Figures
- Writing the Discussion Section
Toolkit:Facilitation Kit: Preparing to Write a Journal Article
This kit consists of three modules, each containing a PowerPoint presentation and a set of facilitator notes. The notes expand on the content of the slides and provide guidance in facilitating the module, which combines presentation and small-group work.
The topics of the modules are
- Deciding When and Where to Submit a Paper
- Defining the Focus and Contribution of Your Paper
- Using Journals' Instructions to Authors
Toolkit:Facilitation Kit: Foundations of Research Writing
This kit consists of three modules, each containing a PowerPoint presentation and a set of facilitator notes. The notes expand on the content of the slides and provide guidance in facilitating the module, which combines presentation and small-group work.
The topics of the modules are
- Approaching a Writing Project
- Ethical and Other Issues in Research Writing
- Writing in English as a Foreign Language
Course:"Scientific and Technical Writing"
The course will help you:
- Conduct and plan your publication project by identifying necessary activities and resources
- Identify information sources, access the required information, and manage your reference list with appropriate software
- Apply the basic rules of scientific and technical writing, organize and support your arguments, structure and illustrate your points
- Choose the right journal in which to publish and follow the stages to submit an article to a journal
- Write a technical extension document: technical data sheet, technical manual, posters
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Disseminate and promote your scientific publication
Duration: 31 hours
Publication Date: June 2016"
Self-paced course from FAO. Collaborators included INASP. Adapted from a course in French.
Course:"Rédiger et publier un document scientifique ou technique"
- à élaborer et planifier un projet de publication en évaluant les activités et les moyens nécessaires
- à identifier les sources d’information, à accéder à l’information recherchée, et à gérer sa bibliographie avec un logiciel adapté
- à appliquer les règles de base de la rédaction scientifique et technique, et à organiser, argumenter, structurer et illustrer son propos
- à choisir la revue dans laquelle publier et à respecter les étapes de soumission d’un article à une revue
- à réaliser un document de vulgarisation technique : fiche technique, manuel technique, poster
- à diffuser sa publication scientifique et à la promouvoir
Durée : 31 heures
Date de publication : Novembre 2013"
Course:Open online course in research writing (October 2016)
Open course for early career researchers in developing countries: 18 October to 28 November 2016
Web resource:Publons
Publons allows peer reviewers to track, verify and showcase their peer review contributions across the world's journals.
Tips of the Week 276–300 (Chinese Translation)
Another set of 25 weekly tips on writing, publishing, and related topics.
Web resource:ARRIVE Guidelines
Guidelines for reporting research using animals.