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Scientific writing : easy when you know how / Jennifer Peat ... [and others].
Holman Biotech Commons T11 .S388 2002
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Levy Dental Medicine Library - Stacks T11 .S388 2002
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LIBRA T11 .S388 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technical writing.
- Writing--standards.
- Medical Subjects:
- Writing--standards.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Medical Association, 2002.
- Summary:
- Scientific Writing is a comprehensive handbook that takes you step by step through getting published in the biomedical field: from assembling the material to getting the grammar correct, choosing the journal and submitting the manuscript. Guiding you through the stages of preparing your Grotty First Draft through to the Excellent Fourth Draft and Final Document, it gives practical advice in a clear and readable style. Key messages are summarised and boxed, and examples are used throughout. Interspersed throughout the book are quotes from famous authors on the trials and joys of writing. The message is encouraging.
- Contents:
- 1 Scientific writing 1
- Reasons to publish 1
- Rewards for being a good writer 3
- Making it happen 5
- Achieving creativity 7
- Thought, structure and style 8
- The thrill of acceptance 9
- Forming a plan 12
- Choosing a journal 17
- Uniform requirements 21
- Instructions to authors 23
- Standardised reporting guidelines 24
- Authorship 29
- Contributions 41
- 3 Writing your paper 48
- Introduction 51
- Methods 54
- Results 63
- 4 Finishing your paper 93
- Choosing a title 93
- Title page 100
- References and citations 101
- Peer review 106
- Processing feedback 109
- Checklists and instructions to authors 110
- Creating a good impression 112
- Submitting your paper 115
- Archiving and documentation 116
- 5 Review and editorial processes 121
- Peer reviewed journals 121
- Revise and resubmit 125
- Replying to reviewers' comments 127
- Handling rejection 130
- Editorial process 132
- Page proofs 133
- Copyright laws 135
- Releasing results to the press 136
- Becoming a reviewer 138
- Writing review comments 140
- Becoming an editor 143
- 6 Publishing 147
- Duplicate publication 147
- Reporting results from large studies 149
- Policies for data sharing 150
- Fast tracking and early releases 152
- Electronic journals and eletters 153
- Netprints 155
- Citation index 157
- Impact factors 158
- 7 Other types of documents 165
- Letters 165
- Editorials 168
- Narrative reviews 169
- Systematic reviews and Cochrane reviews 172
- Case reports 176
- Post-graduate theses 178
- 8 Writing style 188
- Plain English 188
- Topic sentences 189
- Subjects, verbs and objects 191
- Eliminating fog 192
- Say what you mean 195
- Word order 197
- Creating flow 199
- Tight writing 202
- Chopping up snakes 206
- Parallel structures 208
- Style matters 210
- 9 Grammar 214
- Nouns 215
- Adjectives 219
- Verbs 221
- Adverbs 229
- Pronouns and determiners 231
- Conjunctions and prepositions 235
- Phrases 239
- Clauses 240
- Which and that 243
- Grammar matters 244
- 10 Word choice 246
- Label consistently 246
- Participants are people 248
- Word choice 250
- Avoid emotive words 251
- Because 253
- Levels and concentrations 255
- Untying the negatives 255
- Spelling 258
- Words matter 259
- 11 Punctuation 261
- Full stops and ellipses 261
- Colons and semicolons 262
- Commas 263
- Apostrophes 266
- Parentheses and square brackets 267
- Slashes, dashes and hyphens 270
- Punctuation matters 271
- 12 Support systems 273
- Searching the internet 273
- Writers' groups 274
- Avoiding writer's block 281
- Mentoring 282.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0727916254
- OCLC:
- 63598664
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