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Supporting Developing Country Researchers in Publishing Their Work
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Supporting Developing Country Researchers in Publishing Their Work
By Barbara Gastel, 22 May 2013
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By Barbara Gastel | 30 September 2012
Hello again. One of my favorite resources is the director of our university writing center. As well as helping in other ways, she often sends links to articles about writing.
A few days ago, she forwarded a link to an online article that another professor had recommended. The article is titled “Writing Rules! Advice from The Times on Writing Well”.
The article, I learned, is based in part on an online series called “Draft”, which is associated with the US newspaper The New York Times. This continuing series features essays on aspects of writing. The essays are by a variety of writers.
Among topics of the essays are aspects of punctuation, word choice, and sentence structure. For example, the series includes some essays on comma use, an essay on verbs, and an essay on passive voice.
The essays tend to be written in relatively advanced English and to include literary references. Therefore they might especially suit AuthorAID community members specializing in language or literature.
I encourage you to consider looking at this continuing series of essays. And I thank our writing center director for being such a fine resource.
Until the next post—
Barbara
Posted by Stephanie Deming at 08 October 2012 10:52 PM
Many thanks for bringing this to our attention. So far, I have read three of the essays in the "Draft" series, and I have enjoyed every one.
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Posted by NIMUSIMA at 07 October 2012 05:26 PM
Its true Prof Barbara, punctuation, word choice, and sentence structure mean a lot in effective communication to different publics.I have noticed same problems even in some written works placed in library shelves at different universities i have attended!
Your post talks about a very serious issue that goes unnoticed by many.Let us respect writing skills because thats what distinguishes us from non scientific writings and enhances quality in knowledge creation to generations that will come after.