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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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. […]

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Book review: Science Research Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English

October 9, 2015   Filed under Blog, Featured, Publishing, Writing  

When I wrote Eloquent Science, the most difficult chapter to write was the one for non-native English speakers. Growing up a native English speaker, I felt that I couldn’t offer much about how to help non-native speakers write better. But, I strongly felt that the book needed to say something to this audience. The books […]

Book review: Designing Science Presentations: A Visual Guide to Figures, Papers, Slides, Posters, and More

Here is another in my series of reviews for books that I read a while ago and were sitting on my desk waiting for the time to write the review. This review is of Matt Carter’s Designing Science Presentations: A Visual Guide to Figures, Papers, Slides, Posters, and More. Outside of my own book, I’ve […]

Responding to Reviewers: It’s the way you say it

August 3, 2015   Filed under Blog, Featured, Publishing, Reviewing, Writing  

Nature Methods has a few nice links over on their page about responding to criticism before and after publication. The way you say it The dos and don’ts of communicating with editors and reviewers Here are some of the choice quotes from the first link that I related to, from my experience as an author […]

The Importance of Thinking Before Writing

March 21, 2015   Filed under Blog, Featured, Publishing, Writing  

I was helping a student with a paper he was writing. He said a lot of interesting things, just not being very effective at what he was trying to convey. Here was my advice to him. If you can write down 1–3 bulleted sentences that convey your principal results or points that you want to […]

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