Well...not always❗ Definitely not when it entails pathological attention to detail😮‍💨 Scientists/researchers often suffer from this...

☑️What are the university guidelines? You don't want to struggle with reformatting your manuscript later🤯 ☑️What appeals to your...

📌TITLE of a scientific manuscript (thesis/ dissertation/ article) is no different from the title of a YouTube video or a blogpost—it...

Here's how they differ, but are still interconnected: 📌AIMS - Answers the WHAT? (WHAT will your work accomplish?) 📌OBJECTIVES - Answers...

📌It is important to identify the type of research you are doing. Research is categorized into two types: 👉🏽Primary research...

It took me a while into my editing journey to get a grasp on these! 👉🏽The longest one (—) is 'em dash' 👉🏽The shortest one (‐) is...

My introduction to the world of science communication resulted from the frustration of not being able to translate my lab work into a...

Often used interchangeably in writing...well, not anymore! DO NOT USE when NOT referring to time—they are time words—the name says it...

It's very simple...really! THAT - when referring to things WHO - when referring to people e.g. An effective vaccine would be one 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁...

POINT TO REMEMBER #1 If the sentence makes sense and stands independently when you remove the part that you intend to put after...

Have you ever found yourself wondering whether a particular abbreviation is to be preceded by 𝗮/𝗮𝗻? The trick Use your ears (how it's...

Shortened form of a word is an ABBREVIATION An abbreviation that can be pronounced as a word is an ACRONYM e.g. MRI is an abbreviation,...

Well, not really... But, here are some useful tips to ensure consistency in your writing! Capitalize only the first alphabet of...

If the word takes an 's' in the plural, so does its abbreviation. Electrocardiogram - ECG (Singular) Electrocardiograms - ECGs (Plural)...

Here's what that implies... et al. Latin for 'and others'; et – Latin word for ‘and’; al – shortened form of Latin word ‘alii’ meaning...

I have often seen numbers and their units written as one word (without any space or hyphen) e.g. 20ml Would you write 20flasks or 20...

A common punctuating mistake when an attempt is made to hold two completely independent sentences together to form one sentence. e.g....

'If' should always be succeeded by 'then' e.g. If the scientists analyzed the PCR data, then the gene expression could be determined....

The OXFORD COMMA aka serial comma or Harvard comma is the comma that appears before the last conjunction (and/or) in a list/series. e.g....

Scientists aspiring to become science journalists often find the process of interviewing their sources challenging. Years of being wary...