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[Note: Recently consultant Teresa Hanley evaluated the first 3 years of AuthorAID. In a guest post last week, Teresa presented some highlights of the evaluation. Below she presents additional highlights. Thank you again, Teresa! –Barbara]

Mentoring is the newest aspect of AuthorAID to develop. Most mentees were emphatic that …

[Note: Recently consultant Teresa Hanley evaluated the first 3 years of AuthorAID. In guest posts this week and next, Teresa presents highlights of the evaluation. Thank you, Teresa! –Barbara]

Thank you to everyone who took part in the evaluation of AuthorAID through surveys and interviews. It was extremely valuable to hear your experiences as users of …

Greetings from San Diego, where I’m attending the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

The AAAS annual meeting is a large general science meeting. Attendees typically include about 4000 to 5000 scientists, 800 to 1000 journalists, and 2000 to 3000 community members. This year there are attendees from more than 40 countries.

Because I’m currently an officer of a section of AAAS, …

Greetings again. As I prepare this blog post, AuthorAID users from China and some other Asian countries are celebrating the beginning of the Year of the Tiger. Happy lunar new year to you all!

This week I showed some students a grant proposal that seems as powerful as a tiger. Let me tell you the story:

Recently 2 graduate students who had taken my science-editing course said they wanted to learn more about editing grant proposals. Therefore I’m giving these …

Greetings again. I hope you had a good week.

This week, I learned of 3 resources that you might find helpful.

To begin: I received a message from Jose Sergio Hleap Lozano, a biologist who had attended the AuthorAID workshop in Colombia. He wrote to tell me about a website that he found helpful.

This website, titled The Dissertation …

Greetings again. I hope that 2010 is going well for you.

Thus far in 2010, this blog hasn’t included photos. So, as a little “vacation”, I’ve attached a photo taken in the countryside before the recent AuthorAID workshop in Colombia.

But now, let’s turn to this week’s topic:

Some AuthorAID users have asked us to include more information about writing in the social sciences. Therefore this week I’ll note a group of resources in this realm.

As you may know, …

Greetings again. I hope you had a good week.

This week our spring semester began. I’m teaching a lot this semester.

I’m also trying to finish some writing that I had hoped to finish between semesters. I once read a sign that said (in incorrect but clear English), “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” Sometimes I feel that way. Do you?

One thing made my week easier: Julie Walker at INASP introduced me to a “Toolkit for Researchers” from the

Greetings again. I hope that all is going well for you.

Thursday and Friday, I gave a workshop at the (US) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. I had been invited by Dr. Banalata (Bono) Sen, who is an editor at Environmental Health Perspectives and an AuthorAID mentor. Most of my presentations at the workshop were about writing scientific papers.

As requested, I also gave a presentation on careers in science communication. This presentation has …

Hello again. I hope you’ve had a good week.

This week, a former student e-mailed me a link to photos of her wedding. Later, a former colleague sent a link to photos of her daughter’s wedding.

Both weddings were large and beautiful. I greatly enjoyed viewing both sets of photos.

However, I enjoyed the latter set even more. The difference?

The website for the former wedding contained more than 1000 photos. The photos were wonderful. But after viewing a few …

Greetings again. I hope 2010 has started well for you.

In the United States, we tend to make New Year’s resolutions. Popular resolutions include exercising more, saving money, becoming better at a foreign language, and volunteering to help others.

Sometimes I think my international work began with a New Year’s resolution. Here’s the story.

In the early 1980s, I lived in a US city with many good Chinese restaurants. I enjoyed eating at these restaurants, but I was …