Scientist's Guide to Writing, 2nd Edition (eBook)

How to Write More Easily and Effectively throughout Your Scientific Career

Stephen B. Heard (Autor)

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2022 | 2. Auflage
368 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21919-6 (ISBN)

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An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientistsThe Scientist's Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists need to write more clearly, efficiently, and easily. Now fully updated and expanded, this incisive primer offers practical advice on such topics as generating and maintaining writing momentum, structuring a scientific paper, revising a first draft, handling citations, responding to peer reviews, managing coauthorships, and more. The ability to write clearly is critical to any scientific career. The Scientist's Guide to Writing shows scientists how to become better writers so that their ideas have the greatest possible impact.New chapters discuss effective reading, choosing the right journal for your research, and the advantages and disadvantages of posting preprintsProvides additional advice on reporting statistical results, dealing with conflicting peer reviews, managing coauthorships, writing with English as an additional language, and moreEmphasizes writing as a process, not just a productEncourages habits that improve motivation and productivityOffers detailed guidance on submission, review, revision, and publicationIncludes a wealth of new exercises

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Skills for Scholars
• Zusatzinfo: 17 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Abstraction (software engineering) • Abstract (summary) • Academic publishing • Adjective • afterword • Article processing charge • Article (publishing) • author • Autobiographical novel • Behavior • Blog • book design • Brevity (comic strip) • Calculation • Career • Classroom • Collaborative Writing • Composition book • Consideration • Contraction (grammar) • Correction (newspaper) • Council of Science Editors • Cover Letter • Curriculum Vitae • cursive • Deliberation • Design of Experiments • editorial • Electronic Publishing • English as a Second or Foreign Language • Essay • Free Writing • Funding of science • George R. R. Martin • Gerund • Google Scholar • grammar • Grammatical person • Humour • imperative mood • Indentation (typesetting) • Instance (computer science) • International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology • ISAAC ASIMOV • Journal of Physics G • Lab notebook • language education • Late modernity • Literature • literature review • lyricism • Manuscript • Mathematical and theoretical biology • Meta-analysis • Modernity • Monograph • Most common words in English • My Struggle (Knausgård novels) • newspaper • noun • Novel • novelist • On Writing (Hemingway) • ORCID • Paragraph • Parenthesis (rhetoric) • Paul Virilio • Peer Review • Philosopher • Possible Side Effects • Predatory open access publishing • Preprint • prewriting • Principia Mathematica • printing • Profession • pronoun • Prose • psychologist • Psychology • Publication • Publishing • Quantity • reader-response criticism • Reading Comprehension • Reading (process) • reference work • result • Romance Novel • Science Communication • science education • Science Journalism • Science Studies • Scientific journal • Scientific Literature • Scientific Writing • Scientist • SCImago Journal Rank • S. (Dorst novel) • Sedimentary Geology (journal) • Self-handicapping • Sentence (linguistics) • sms language • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics • Species description • Spelling • Statement (computer science) • Student's t-test • Subject (grammar) • Supplement (publishing) • Syntax • the new science • Thesis • thesis statement • Thought • Topic sentence • Typing • V. • Verb • Web of science • Welch's t-test • women in science • word processor • workplace • World literature • Writer • writer's block • Writing • Writing Center • Writing Process • writing workshop • Your Computer (British magazine)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21919-2 / 0691219192
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21919-6 / 9780691219196