This is the second Perspective in a miniseries aiming to provide basic guidelines and share best practice for scientific writing, especially to novice writers of refereed papers in astronomy. In the ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic. This handout breaks the research paragraph down into ...

One of the most popular formats for written online content is the humble listicle. 55% of bloggers say they’ve published a listicle in the last 12 months (only how-to articles rank higher). But this ...

A guide to writing strong, connected thesis statements and topic sentences This handout will help you understand the connection between topic sentences and thesis statements so you can use your topic ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. In my first post about topic models, I discussed what topic models are, how they ...

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Communicating with expertise and authority is a top priority and there’s no better starting point than outlining your content with a topic taxonomy as a way for creating content that has the best ...

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