Yateendra Joshi

This post suggests a few language-related strategies for researchers to explain abstract or difficult-to-grasp concepts to the general public.

The essay is based on a presentation by the author at the 11th International Conference of EASE, Tallinn, June 2012. 

This chapter, published as part of the Science Editors' Handbook by EASE, touches on the concerns of science editors but focuses mainly on what scientific copy-editors do with data tables.

Knowing a bit about journal publishing helps authors to see their contribution in a context since authors are affected by the policies adopted by publishers of journals. 

Poor English can prevent acceptances from top-tier international journals at the cost of valuable research. But, who should do the job of copy-editing such research papers? The author of this article…

In this article, published by Learned Publishing, the author questions the relevance and utility of the minutiae that style guides insist on. 

Money is believed to buy everything—including authorship in journals covered by SCI, the Science Citation

Although The Economist, a British weekly, is not a research journal, its writing is often praised for its clarity and precision. How does the The Economist&n

Having written a paper for submission to a chosen journal, you will need to write something more, namely a letter or an e-mail addressed to the editor of the target journal requesting the editor to…

When it comes to writing, all information is not equal: some of it is given as an aside—not essential, but interesting, useful, or "nice to know." How do you mark this kind of information? This post…