Helping Faculty Meet New Pressures for Scholarly Writing

Editorial----a Plea for Scholarly Writing

Synopsis Scientific writing is a skill that needs to be developed through concentration and practice. By the final draft of a paper, each sentence should have been crafted to convey information clearly, succinctly, and accurately. The standard of writing in current scientific journals has reached an all-time low, in terms of both poor grammar and imprecise communication. This situation has been...

Faculty Helping Themselves to Improve Their InstructionalAbilities

Optimizing scholarly communication: 30 tips for writing clearly.

OBJECTIVE To share with potential authors tips for communicating their ideas more clearly in a scholarly manuscript. DESCRIPTION Communicating scientific, technical, or medical information so that readers can understand its meaning requires logical organization and proper use of language. These 30 tips review basic English grammar and suggest ways authors can clearly and concisely present the...

W9: Forum on Therapeutic Theater with Emphasis on Helping Children Cope With Stress and Mental Pressures

Using theater in the treatment as well as education traced back to several thousand years ago. In fact, drama therapy has been used for a long time in clinics and rehabilitation/treatment centers. Children theater experts intend to adopt this approach outside of the confined framework of clinics and make it as a general method in the society. In other words, let it face the theater’s large audi...

Scholarly Metrics Baseline: A Survey of Faculty Knowledge, Use, and Opinion about Scholarly Metrics