Want quick publicity? Send out a press release on your unpublished manuscript!
January 24, 2014 Filed under Blog, Featured, Potpourri, Publishing
As this article from slate.com describes, yet again someone has received a lot of media attention for their unpublished research. This time the study was on the eventual decline of Facebook. The slate article does a fine job of undermining the premises of the paper and showing them not to be valid (particularly the one […]
Lee Grenci is mad as hell about the use of “polar vortex” in the media.
He’s not taking it anymore. https://www.e-education.psu.edu/worldofweather/node/2098
Sell no manuscript before its time
January 18, 2014 Filed under Blog, Featured, Publishing, Writing
This classic TV advertisement from the late 1970s features Orson Welles proclaiming that Paul Masson winery will not sell its wine until it is ready. Unfortunately, many authors “sell” their manuscript to journals before they are ready to enter peer review. The manuscripts are often sloppy, lacking careful proofreading. References are not in the proper […]
More on plain writing in the government
Regular reader Brian Curran sends us this link on the Plain Writing Act and the results thereof, following up on earlier discussions of clear language in government writing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/11/19/plain-writing-in-government-agencies-plainly-speaking-arent-there-yet/ As the report card from the Center for Plain Language shows, NOAA gets a D for “Plain Writing”, although which documents were used was not stated […]
