It is probably true that every scholar who puts pen to paper or fingers to keyboard is aware that bias must be avoided in professional documents intended for publication. However, every scholar may not be certain about exactly which preconceptions and statements may constitute bias, and the problem is exacerbated by the fact that what is considered bias in one context may not be in another. The resources I have collected here discuss bias in the context of academic and scientific writing in the English language and provide not just helpful advice, but also food for thought as you prepare your writing for publication.
With lists and explanations of various kinds of bias, as well as effective examples to demonstrate assumptions and statements that might be read as indicative of bias, this resource is a useful introduction to concepts and vocabulary that should be strictly avoided in scholarly writing. Humanising language should be preferred to terminology that might be considered insensitive or dehumanising, and precision with regard to the facts of your research will eliminate the generalisation so often characteristic of biassed expressions.
Gender or sexist bias is the focus of this article, where precision when discussing research and its participants is again recommended. The words ‘man’ and ‘woman’ should always be used with accuracy in relation to reality, not as a reflection of stereotypes and the preconceptions that support them. The appropriate use of pronouns is also discussed with examples of when to use ‘he,’ ‘she,’ ‘they’ or ‘one’ in order to write prose that is grammatically correct and bias free.
The catastrophic results of not avoiding gender or sexist bias are demonstrated by the claims of a sexist peer review discussed in this post. Whether the situation is considered indicative of science’s continuing problem with sexism or a moment for collective education among scholarly authors, reviewers and editors, it is certain that the way in which information was disseminated online is as troubling as the incident itself, which has undoubtedly renewed discussion of several key issues associated with scholarly publishing.
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