Botany One welcomes a new editor and a slight change in direction.
Tag - Writing
Lorena Villanueva-Almanza
Alun Salt
Write for us – join our ‘Botany Writers’ mailing list
Would you like to spread the word about your latest paper? Do you feel that there isn’t enough information available online about your particular area of research? Do you have an engaging video or activity that you’d...
Anne Osterrieder
Between scientists and journalists, the PIO
Handbook for Science Public Information Officers by W. Matthew Shipman, 2015. The University of Chicago Press. This book had been on my ‘to-read’ list for years, though it kept getting bumped down by other...
Communicating Science and Scicomm career advice from Sci Comm Camp
What does it mean to be a Science Communicator? What tips can you pick up from others? Ian Street has been finding out at this year's Sci Comm Camp.
Ian Street
Analysis of a Corpus of Scientific Article Titles Across Eight Academic Disciplines Finds That Article Titles in Botany Can Be Much Longer Than in Other Disciplines, But If You Ignore the Outliers They’re Not That Different
The Annals of Botany has been put under the microscope, along with a few other journals in a study that aims to find out what is happening in titles of scientific articles. The article is Research Article Titles and...
Gingko, a writing tool that will help you organise your text
There seem to be plenty of writing apps launching on the web at the moment. Most seem to be a replacement for Notepad or similar, with a little extra formatting. A few have unique selling points. Hemingway for example...
Randy Olson on the ABT model
Scientists want to share their research and the public want to know what they’re up to but sometimes it doesn’t seem they share a common language therefore some help in communicating could be useful. I tried...
