Featured Resources
Toolkit:A guide to starting and running an AuthorAID journal club
In this guide, we outline the steps to starting and running your own AuthorAID journal club and share learning from our existing journal clubs.
Toolkit:AuthorAID Research Writing Toolkit
Resources to run a participatory research writing workshop at your institution.
Video:"Get Lit: The Literature Review"
Video of presentation on preparing the literature review section of a thesis or dissertation. One of the most popular videos on our online research writing courses
Toolkit:Gender Mainstreaming in Higher Education Toolkit
This toolkit has been developed for facilitators who are interested in introducing gender mainstreaming in higher education in order to challenge gender inequality.
Toolkit:AuthorAID Training of Trainers toolkit
Resources to run a training of trainers in research writing workshop at your institution.
Resource Library
Article:Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts
This LSE blog gives you 7 useful tips for writing a good abstract.
Article:How to write a superb literature review
This Nature article asks researchers to explain the work they did to make their literature reviews effective.
Article:A Curious Researcher’s Guide on Successfully Publishing Scientific Manuscripts.
This goal of this editorial is to help mentors and mentees navigate the research and publication processes.
Article:A Step by Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Manuscript
Volker Wenzel, M.D., M.Sc., Martin W. Dünser, M.D., Karl H. Lindner, M.D.
Article:Successful Manuscript Preparation: An Editorial Perspective, Review Article.
Holly Beanlands, MA
Article:BROAD Institute, CommKit.
The CommKit is a collection of guides to successful communication in the biological sciences, written by the BRCL Fellows.
Article:Essential Ingredients of a Good Research Proposal for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students in the Social Sciences.
Raymond Talinbe Abdulai and Anthony Owusu-Ansah
Web resource:Write like a scientist.
Write Like a Scientist, Website.
Infographic:It’s a Story, Not a Study: Writing an Effective Research Paper.
Information on how to write a manuscript in this story/study format.
Article:Introduction sections: where are we going and why should I care.
This chapter aims to provide an instructional review about how to write effective introduction sections for original medical research articles.