Preparing Your Manuscript: Strong and Ethical Scholarly Writing for Multidisciplinary Audiences

This presentation will emphasize the importance of plain, good writing. Editors read 10 or more manuscripts per week with pressure to reject 80-90% of them. If the point and contribution are not clear in a quick scan of the paper, it will not be reviewed favorably. I will provide tips for writing that are commonly violated in submissions, provide references for additional writing support, cover expectations for language consistent with GSA’s Reframing Aging initiative, and discuss some common publication ethics issues that arise during the review process, including author contributions and embedding your scholarship in the context of prior work.

The elements of style

Each "Communication Corner" essay is self-contained; however, they build on each other. For best results, before reading this essay and doing the exercise, go to the first essay "How an Ugly Duckling Became a Swan," then read each succeeding essay. Over the decades, hundreds if not thousands of books have been published on the keys to good writing. However, barely a handful have reached the status of "must reading." Here is one of them.

Principles of Good Writing

This chapter reviews the mechanics of writing, from grammar and sentence structure through sentence and paragraph flow, flow between sections, and the overall organization and structure of a manuscript. Key grammatical and sentence structure issues are covered, and common errors are reviewed. Ways in which writers can maximize the quality and readability of their work are discussed. The chapter also includes tips for writers whose first language is not English can practice and improve their English-language writing. The primary point of the chapter is that grammatical and sentence structure problems will compromise the readability of a manuscript and will obscure the points that the authors are attempting to convey.

‘Farming Writing’: An Innovative Subgenre of Internet Literature

As an innovative subgenre of Internet literature, ‘farming writing’ has attained popularity in contemporary China’s cyberspace, which, in a narrow sense, denotes narratives pertaining to agronomic theories and agrarian practices. Disparate from cliché-ridden web romances that deploy authorial ‘golden finger’ to equip protagonists with impeccable demeanour and prowess, ‘farming’ fiction is characterised by reality-oriented, detail-enriched depictions, notwithstanding its essence as ‘feel-good writing’. Furthermore, ‘farming’ works are marked by a slow pace, peaceful setting and plain theme, enabling readers to identify with characters and escape from reality. In this article, I scrutinise a ‘farming’ novel under the genre of danmei (aka Boys Love), and further posit that the popularity of ‘farming writing’ is also attributed to the Chinese ethnicity’s devotion to agriculture since time immemorial.

FbG as an around the clock support for an essay writing course amidst the pandemic

This study aimed to explore the potential of Facebook Group (FbG) for teaching essay writing skills in the period of social distancing due to covid-19 pandemic. The study involved three groups of students who had been attending Essay Writing Course. Data was collected through questionnaires, interview, home assignments, and documents. Questionnaires were distributed via Google Form. Interviews were conducted with students through WhatsApp chats and calls. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse data obtained from closed questionnaires, home assignments, and mid-term test. Data from open questionnaires, interviews, and documents was analysed using qualitative inductive approach to identifying themes � topics, ideas, and patters of meaning. Study findings indicated that FbG has been an appropriate place for developing essay writing skills amidst the pandemic. FbG as networking site has made possible an effective, efficient, and practical essay writing learning for the following reasons.� Firstly, FbG discussion forum provided invaluable learning input. Secondly, FbG was easy to operate. The students could learn independently at their own pace.� Lastly, use of FbG brought them convenience and raised confidence to better engage in learning online. FbG has supported students� essay writing learning process that has led to good writing performance. This can be seen not only from the conducive learning process in comparison to traditional classroom instruction prior to the pandemic, but also from learning outcome apparently observed in writing portfolios as well as mid-term test.

A Study on Difficulties and Solutions in English Speaking Skills of Students at Hufi

Speaking skill is one of the most necessary skill in English to communicate in our daily life. When learning speaking skills, what you aim for is how to communicate naturally and fluently with foreigners. People can have good writing and listening skills if you have a good grasp of vocab-ulary and grammar but your reflexes are poor. Some common reasons why HUFI students have difficulty speaking English are afraid of communication, lack of training environment, poor vo-cabulary and grammar. Nowadays, English has been introduced into teaching from primary school level. Students learn grammar and vocabulary, practice reading in books. So you have less chance to practice speaking. This situation goes on continuously and lasts up to university, making your English speaking skills poor. Because they are not sure about speaking skills, most students have difficulties in communicating in English. With the above reasons, the aim of this research is to investigate the difficulties and solutions to improve students' speaking skills of HUFI., help students confidently communicate in English in all situations and in daily life.

A Study on Difficulties and Solutions in English Speaking Skills of Students at Hufi

Speaking skill is one of the most necessary skill in English to communicate in our daily life. When learning speaking skills, what you aim for is how to communicate naturally and fluently with foreigners. People can have good writing and listening skills if you have a good grasp of vocab-ulary and grammar but your reflexes are poor. Some common reasons why HUFI students have difficulty speaking English are afraid of communication, lack of training environment, poor vo-cabulary and grammar. Nowadays, English has been introduced into teaching from primary school level. Students learn grammar and vocabulary, practice reading in books. So you have less chance to practice speaking. This situation goes on continuously and lasts up to university, making your English speaking skills poor. Because they are not sure about speaking skills, most students have difficulties in communicating in English. With the above reasons, the aim of this research is to investigate the difficulties and solutions to improve students' speaking skills of HUFI., help students confidently communicate in English in all situations and in daily life.

Pelatihan jurnalistik pada redaktur majalah sekolah Serambi Al-Muayyad

School magazines are a medium for students to practice and develop their journalistic potential. A student must have qualified journalistic knowledge to produce good writing in a magazine. For this reason, training and assistance in magazine writing are necessary so that school magazines continue to exist and are of higher quality. One school that has a school magazine is MA Al-Muayyad Surakarta. Journalism training is essential at this school because many students have not developed their writings properly. The methods used in this training are interviews, presentations, discussions, and article writing training. This training was held in April 2018. This training activity provides good benefits, especially for the training participants, because before the training was held, most of the magazine's contents took sources from the internet. However, after the training, the students' writing became original, the language used got better, and the rubric content more diverse.

DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING AN ESSAY OF ENGLISH-MAJORED SOPHOMORES AT TAY DO UNIVERSITY, IN VIETNAM

Writing is an important skill in English that helps people express thoughts, emotion and viewpoint to readers. However, students face some difficulties when writing. Hence, the survey research presents the process of the study about “Difficulties in writing an essay of English-majored sophomores at Tay Do University, in Viet Nam”. It was conducted to find out some difficulties in learning writing (from 200 to 250 - word essay) of 102 the sophomores from Bachelor of English 10 at Tay Do University. Questionnaire, paper interview and essay samples were the instruments of the study. The results showed that sophomores had many problems in writing such as vocabulary, grammar structures, ideas arrangement, background knowledge, and others. Basing on the results, some solutions would be suggested to help students to get a good writing skill. Viết là một kỹ năng quan trọng trong tiếng Anh giúp người viết thể hiện suy nghĩ, cảm xúc và quan điểm với người đọc. Tuy nhiên, sinh viên thường gặp một số khó khăn khi viết. Do đó, nghiên cứu “Khó khăn khi viết bài luận của sinh viên năm thứ hai chuyên ngành Ngôn Ngữ Anh tại Trường Đại học Tây Đô, Việt Nam” được thực hiện nhằm tìm ra một số khó khăn khi học môn viết (bài luận từ 200 đến 250 từ) của 102 sinh viên Cử nhân Tiếng Anh năm thứ hai, khóa 10 của Trường Đại học Tây Đô. Công cụ nghiên cứu gồm bảng câu hỏi, phỏng vấn trên giấy và phân tích bài luận. Kết quả cho thấy sinh viên năm thứ hai gặp nhiều vấn đề về viết như từ vựng, cấu trúc ngữ pháp, sắp xếp ý tưởng, kiến thức nền tảng và những vấn đề khác. Dựa trên kết quả đạt được, một số giải pháp sẽ được đề xuất để giúp sinh viên có được kỹ năng viết tốt hơn. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0786/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>