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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
Web resource:5 Free Online Plagiarism Checkers
In this blog post Adam Warner an experienced freelance writer, specializing in technology and education discusses 5 free online plagiarism checkers that work in 2021.
Article:Discussion and conclusion: How to write effective discussion sections
Medical Writing Corner. This article on the AME Medical Journal provides an instructional review about how to write effective discussion sections for original medical research articles.
Article:The IFIS Expert Guide to Journal Publishing.
IFIS talks you through the process of choosing a journal and preparing to submit.
Article:Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts
This LSE blog gives you 7 useful tips for writing a good abstract.
Article:How to write a superb literature review
This Nature article asks researchers to explain the work they did to make their literature reviews effective.
Article:A Curious Researcher’s Guide on Successfully Publishing Scientific Manuscripts.
This goal of this editorial is to help mentors and mentees navigate the research and publication processes.
Article:A Step by Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Manuscript
Volker Wenzel, M.D., M.Sc., Martin W. Dünser, M.D., Karl H. Lindner, M.D.
Article:Successful Manuscript Preparation: An Editorial Perspective, Review Article.
Holly Beanlands, MA
Article:BROAD Institute, CommKit.
The CommKit is a collection of guides to successful communication in the biological sciences, written by the BRCL Fellows.
Article:Essential Ingredients of a Good Research Proposal for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students in the Social Sciences.
Raymond Talinbe Abdulai and Anthony Owusu-Ansah