Mastering Scientific and Medical Writing
A Self-help Guide
eBook
This self-help guide is intended for scientific and medical professionals and students who wish to improve their scientific writing skills. Exercises invite the reader to practice the most important aspects of scientific writing. Although the book addresses certain issues more troublesome to scientific communicators of a non-English language origin, the guide will be of equal benefit to those whosefirst language is English. If you do not only want to write but want to write well, this book is for you.
1;TABLE OF CONTENTS;5 2;LIST OF TABLES;9 3;ABOUT THE AUTHOR;10 4;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;11 5;PREFACE;12 6;1 | INTRODUCTION;14 7;2 | GOOD VERSUS POOR SCIENTIFIC WRITING: AN ORIENTATION;16 8;3 | WORDS AND UNITS: ORTHOGRAPHY AND PUNCTUATION;26 9;4 | FORMING SENTENCES: GRAMMAR;51 10;5 | PUTTING IT NICELY: STYLE;78 11;6 | REDUNDANCY AND JARGON: FOCUSING ON THE ESSENTIALS;90 12;7 | STRUCTURING SCIENTIFIC TEXTS: GETTING THE "STORY" OUT;97 13;8 | AVOIDING DISCRIMINATION: ETHICS OF SCIENTIFIC WRITING;99 14;9 | QUOTING PUBLISHED MATERIAL: REFERENCE FORMATS;104 15;10 | APPENDIX;111 16;11 | REFERENCES;129 17;12 | EXERCISES;131 18;13 | SOLUTIONS TO EXERCISES;142
Rogers, Silvia M.
| ISBN | 9783540345084 |
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| Article number | 9783540345084 |
| Media type | eBook - PDF |
| Copyright year | 2007 |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag |
| Length | 146 pages |
| Language | English |
| Copy protection | Adobe DRM |
