Top 40 potential questions to be asked in a PhD viva or defense
June 20, 2024 Filed under Blog, Featured, Presentations, Resources, Writing
Students worry about their vivas. They wonder whether they need to do additional work or read textbooks and articles again. For most students, they don’t need to do all this. My advice has consistently been the following to prepare for your viva: Pick up dissertation a few days before the viva, and read through it […]
Free Writing and Publishing Online Workshop: 19–20 June 2024
April 12, 2024 Filed under Blog, Featured, News, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing
Join Prof. David Schultz of the University of Manchester for a free 6-hour workshop on writing and publishing. During this two-day workshop, you will learn the process of peer review from an experienced and interdisciplinary author, reviewer, and editor. Get behind-the-scenes insight into how to better prepare your manuscript for submission, engage with the reviewers […]
Editorial: How to Be a More Effective Author
Looking for top tips from the editors of Monthly Weather Review on how to be a more effective author? The November 2022 issue has an editorial by the 21 editors with our top tips from planning the paper, writing the paper, addressing a rejected manuscript, and responding to reviewers and editors. In addition, we have […]
How to be a more effective reviewer
As part of its 150th anniversary celebrations, Monthly Weather Review published my editorial “How to be a more effective reviewer”. The editorial has four sections: receiving the invitation, writing the review, after the initial review, and communicating with the editor. It provides guidance for first-time reviewers, but also experienced reviewers, to help make your reviews […]
The Five Most Common Problems with Introductions
Source: https://scribemedia.com/write-book-introduction/The introduction is often the toughest part of a scientific paper to write. Authors looking for good role models in the published literature are often seduced by less-than-ideal examples that look superficially good and easy to emulate, but are not as effective as they could be. Here, I indicate five of the most common […]
