First impressions are important. Scientists need to make their work stand out among a sea of others. However, many mistakenly believe that first impressions are formed based only on titles and ...

The brevity of an abstract belies its importance to a manuscript. It’s what catches a reader’s attention and helps them to decide whether a paper is relevant. Yet failing to reflect the content of the ...

A key function of any introduction is to present your argument in such a way that your audience can enter the conversation and properly engage with your paper. Key questions to think about as you ...

Twenty years ago, Wendy Belcher, then an editor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), offered one of the first courses in the United States for journal article writing. The book that ...