by Constantine | May 9, 2023 | How-To, Uncategorized
We can’t stress enough the importance of obtaining permission if you’re planning to use another person’s intellectual property – whether that’s text, images or any other work. This applies whoever you are, even if you’re an academic. If you’d like someone else to do... 
by Constantine | Apr 26, 2023 | How-To, Idea, Uncategorized
What makes good scientific writing? Good writing has become an essential skill for scientific researchers, but one that scientists rarely receive any training in. And that’s a shame, because writing doesn’t always come naturally, even to those working in their native... 
by Constantine | Mar 19, 2023 | How-To, Uncategorized
Feedback has been around for so long that the earliest example of it is marked into a clay tablet: ‘You sold me some copper ingots’, the writer complains, ‘and they were not good’. The tablet was created by a customer called Nanni, who goes on to accuse the merchant... 
by Constantine | Mar 19, 2023 | How-To, Uncategorized
English was not always considered the “language of science”. Many European languages used to be common in scientific and scholarly journals: French, German, Russian, and English were all in circulation. In fact, in 1920, German was the dominant language of... 
by Constantine | Mar 19, 2023 | How-To, Uncategorized
In the Middle Ages, a student defending his thesis would hope to do so before a crowd – the greater the audience, the greater the glory. It would start civilly enough. Carefully crafted points would be met with equally clever counter points. Soon, however, the debate... 
by Constantine | Mar 19, 2023 | How-To, Idea, Uncategorized
How expert academic editing can help to level the field Bias is a notorious problem in academic publishing. It disturbs and distorts processes that are designed to be objective, like peer review. Scholars have, for decades, charted the presence of bias and worried...