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Editorial: How to Be a More Effective Author

May 8, 2023   Filed under Articles, Blog, Featured, Publishing, Resources, Writing  

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

July 30, 2022   Filed under Articles, Blog, Featured, News, Popular, Publishing, Reviewing  

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

February 2, 2022   Filed under Articles, Blog, Featured, Writing  

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 […]

Eliminate excessive and unnecessary acronyms from your scientific writing

December 3, 2021   Filed under Articles, Blog, Featured, Popular, Posters, Publishing, Reviewing, Writing  

Source: https://sspinnovations.com/blog/know-your-gis-and-non-gis-abbreviations-acronyms-and-initialisms/ I can’t say that there was a specific moment when I noticed it happening more often. Either it is increasing in frequency or it is testing my patience more these days. That is the tendency for authors to introduce numerous and unnecessary acronyms in their manuscripts. These authors abbreviate phrases, geographical locations, and […]

Chinese translation of Eloquent Science now available

November 5, 2021   Filed under Articles, Blog, Featured, News, Popular, Resources  

Thanks to the hard work of colleagues, there is a Chinese-language translation of Eloquent Science now available. A huge thank you to translators Haijiang Kong, Yan Han, Feimiao Zhao, M. Song, and Jidong Gao, who worked hard over many years to get this out. I am especially grateful to Haijiang who was the one who […]

Get your paper accepted faster: Responding to reviewers’ comments

July 10, 2021   Filed under Articles, Blog, Featured, Publishing, Reviewing, Uncategorized, Writing  

Getting your manuscript accepted at a journal can typically take one to three rounds of back and forth with reviewers, each round taking one to three months. In my experience as Editor, sometimes the process could go faster because of things that the author could have done better or done differently when writing their responses […]

Handout: Common Errors in Student Science Writing

January 12, 2021   Filed under Blog, Featured, Resources, Writing  

For many years, I have compiled a list of common errors that my students have made in writing scientific papers. I have printed it out and handed it out to several cohorts of first-year undergraduate students over the past few years. I hope this short guide to student writing has helped them improve. It’s been […]

“Don’t use the same word twice.”

July 15, 2020   Filed under Articles, Blog, Featured, Potpourri, Publishing, Reviewing, Writing  

There’s always that memory that you have from your childhood that still influences your life today. When I was probably 8 years old, someone showed me a centipede on the ground and then said, “Don’t touch it. It’s poisonous.” Of course, now I know better, but I still can’t help but be unrealistically reluctant today. […]

Tribute to Jinny Nathans, AMS Archivist and Librarian

July 5, 2020   Filed under Blog, Featured, Potpourri, Uncategorized  

Jinny Nathans (Photo Source: Cambridge Rotary Club) It is devastating to hear that Jinny Nathans passed away this past week due to COVID-19. From American Meteorological Society Executive Director Keith Seitter: “I’m sorry to report that AMS staff lost one of its own to COVID-19. Longtime archivist and librarian Jinny Nathans died this past Sunday. […]

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