I was asked for an update on this. The challenges are formidable, but not insurmountable.
Here are slides from a talk on the subject.
As always, it is important not to reinvent the wheel.
There are already some excellent resources and organisations.
A relevant organisation is AuthorAID which is related to inasp, and has online courses on writing. People I know who have taken these courses, or acted as mentors, speak highly of them.
Authors should also make use of software to correct English such as Grammarly.
Publishing Scientific Papers in the Developing World is a helpful book, stemming from a 2010 conference.
Erik Thulstrup has a nice chapter "How should a Young Researcher Write and Publish a Good Research Paper?"
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ReplyDeletePhD students should know how the pvt sector like Bella labs which produced 8 NLs have changed their philosophy. Innovation has replaced basic science , the theme of this article by Science historian Paul Lucier.
This article reveals the fall out effect of fragmentation in pvt sector ( as the author describes) on why Universities have become crowded places.
Can marketplace science be trusted?
Historian Paul Lucier traces the explosion and fragmentation of industrial research in the fifth essay in a series on how the past 150 years have shaped today’s science system, marking Nature’s anniversary.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03172-5