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This post reviews the book A Scholar’s Guide to Getting Published in English: critical choices and practical strategies
- Yateendra Joshi
- September 2, 2015
Discusses the three non-SI units mentioned in the title (psi, mesh number, and quintals) and supplies appropriate conversion factors.
- Yateendra Joshi
- August 28, 2015
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This post offers some basic guidelines on choosing between upper case and lower case letters in scientific writing.
- Yateendra Joshi
- July 20, 2015
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Tables and figures are commonly used in research papers to supplement text. In this post, you'll find useful tips regarding how to phrase the titles, how to style or…
- Yateendra Joshi
- July 3, 2015
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This post discusses the minutiae of expressing rates (kilometres per hour, grams per litre, etc.) using negative exponents and the slash.
- Yateendra Joshi
- April 29, 2015
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The acknowledgements section is a way of publicly thanking people for their contribution to a study. However, we often find authors acknowledging people for personal…
- Kakoli Majumder
- February 27, 2015
Learn about the minor stylistic differences in labeling the parts of a multi-part figure as specified in four major style guides.
- Yateendra Joshi
- February 19, 2015
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Find tips on presenting genes and products of genes in this article. Gene nomenclature is fairly complex, and this article attempts to draw attention to its intricacies…
- Yateendra Joshi
- February 4, 2015
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The article offers some suggestions on aspects of experimental research that are important, especially from the perspective of making the study reproducible. The…
- Marisha Fonseca
- December 23, 2014
This post explains how to print temperatures, seconds, and primers in describing a polymerase chain reaction.
- Yateendra Joshi
- December 11, 2014