Valerie Matarese
Pordenone
33070
Italy
Research
Training/Educating
Writing
I am an authors’ editor and trainer in scientific writing with 25 years’ experience supporting biomedical researchers, mostly in Italy, in their quests to write effective research articles and grant applications. I offer an intensive course on research article writing for early career researchers in the biomedical sciences and a series of short writing workshops derived from the main course. I also have extensive experience as a journal copy editor. I earned BS and PhD degrees in biochemistry–molecular biology in the United States and have published original research, both in the biomedical sciences and on writing for publication. For more information on my services, activities and publications, please visit www.uptoit.org.
Books
Matarese V (2016) Editing Research: The author editing approach to providing effective support to writers of research papers. Information Today, Medford, USA
Matarese V (2022) Effective Biomolecular Reading and Writing, 2nd edn.
Matarese V, editor (2013) Supporting Research Writing: Roles and challenges in multilingual settings. Chandos Elsevier, Oxford, UK
Selected articles
Acknowledging editing and translation: A pending issue in accountability. Accountability in Research. 2020; 27(4):238-239. Preprint
Transparent attribution of contributions to research: aligning guidelines to real-life practices. Publications. 2019; 7(2):24
Post-publication peer review in biomedical journals: overcoming obstacles and disincentives to knowledge sharing. RT. A Journal of Research Policy and Evaluation. 2018; 6(1)
Improving the biomedical research literature: insights from authors' editors can help journal editors define and refine their core competencies. F1000Research. 2018; 7:109
Reporting—the final phase of scientific research—can and should be supported. A case for integrating language professionals into the research setting. RT. A Journal of Research Policy and Evaluation. 2013; 1:1
Burrough-Boenisch J, Matarese V (2013) "The authors' editor: working with authors to make drafts fit for purpose." In: Matarese V, editor. Supporting Research Writing: Roles and challenges in multilingual settings. Oxford: Chandos, pp 173–189
Matarese V (2013) "Reporting—the final phase of scientific research—can and should be supported. A case for integrating language professionals into the research setting." RT. A Journal on Research Policy & Evaluation
Matarese V (2013) "Good language is vital to research communication". Research Information
Matarese V (2013) "Aldo Manuzio and his legacy to the language profession." European Science Editing 39(2):34-36
Matarese V (2011) "Multiple rejections: role of the writing process." The Lancet
- Anatomy, part 1: basic concepts through study of the thorax
- Anatomy, part 2: understanding the skin
- Corpus-guided editing and translation – Part 1 Mining target-language corpora to guide English editing and translation: an introduction to a problem-solving approach
- Story factor: leveraging advanced storytelling techniques to engage and inspire
- Practical tools for improving text flow: focus on information ordering
- Managing plagiarism: an approach to dialog between authors and editors
- Communicating with your clients: a systematic approach for translators and editors
- Statistics for editors and translators
- Abstracts and the writing of abstracts
- Practical stats, part 2
- Study designs in medical research: reporting structures and roles in knowledge-building
- The comma, false friends and transcreation (MET medley, Milan 2018)
- Wine words – translating in the wine world
- Tips and tools from the Hive, cutting out source-language interference, is full post-editing a pipe dream? (MET medley, Nantes 2019)
- Phrasal verbs: “Bring ’em on!” / Modal verbs: “Might you be in the mood?”
- Tagging along: dangling participles, adverbial disjuncts and other hangers-on
Parsing the parts of our speech: filling the gaps in our understanding of syntax - Running pre-conference workshops on writing effective scientific articles: course design, presentation and marketing issues
- Tagging along: dangling participles, adverbial disjuncts and other hangers-on
- On voice: activating the passivists, passifying the activists
- Approaches to effective paragraphing: the topic sentence revisited
- Understanding our clients: anthropologists