Writing Scientific Research Articles : Strategy and Steps.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cargill, Margaret.

Contributor:

O'Connor, Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science news.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.

Summary:

Margaret Cargill is an applied linguist with over 20 years experience as a research communication educator. Her current research centres on innovative collaborative methods for helping scientists develop high-level skills for communicating their research findings effectively in the international arena. She has worked extensively in Australia, Europe and Asia with scientists of many language and cultural backgrounds. Patrick O'Connor is a research ecologist, environmental consultant and science educator. His work over the last 15 years has focussed on the use of scientific principles in designing and evaluating environmental programs for governments and statutory authorities in Australia. His research interests and scientific publications span fields of terrestrial ecology and detection of change in plant and animal communities.

Contents:

Intro

Writing Scientific Research Articles: Strategy and Steps

Copyright

Contents

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

Section 1: A framework for success

Chapter 1 How the book is organized, and why

1.1 Getting started with writing for international publication

1.2 Publishing in the international literature

1.3 What do you need to know to select your target journal?

1.4 Aims of this book

1.5 How the book is structured

Chapter 2 Research article structures

2.1 Conventional article structures: AIMRaD (Abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, and Discussion) and its variations

Chapter 3 Reviewers' criteria for evaluating manuscripts

3.1 Titles as content signposts

Section 2: When and how to write each article section

Chapter 4 Results as a "story": the key driver of an article

Chapter 5 Results: turning data into knowledge

5.1 Figure, table, or text?

5.2 Designing figures

5.3 Designing tables

5.4 Figure legends and table titles

Chapter 6 Writing about results

6.1 Structure of Results sections

6.2 Functions of Results sentences

6.3 Verb tense in Results sections

Chapter 7 The Methods section

7.1 Purpose of the Methods section

7.2 Organizing Methods sections

7.3 Use of passive and active verbs

Chapter 8 The Introduction

8.1 Argument stages towards a compelling Introduction

8.2 Stage 1: Locating your project within an existing field of scientific research

8.3 Using references in Stages 2 and 3

8.4 Avoiding plagiarism when using others' work

8.5 Indicating the gap or research niche

8.6 Stage 4: The statement of purpose or main activity

8.7 Stages 5 and 6: Highlighting benefit and mapping the article

8.8 Suggested process for drafting an Introduction

8.9 Editing for logical flow.

Chapter 9 The Discussion section

9.1 Important structural issues

9.2 Information elements to highlight the key messages

9.3 Negotiating the strength of claims

Chapter 10 The title

10.1 Strategy 1: Provide as much relevant information as possible, but be concise

10.2 Strategy 2: Use keywords prominently

10.3 Strategy 3: Choose strategically: noun phrase, statement, or question?

10.4 Strategy 4: Avoid ambiguity in noun phrases

Chapter 11 The Abstract

11.1 Why Abstracts are so important

11.2 Selecting additional keywords

11.3 Abstracts: typical information elements

Chapter 12 Writing review articles

12.1 What editors want to publish

12.2 The "take-home message" of a review

12.3 The structure of review articles

12.4 Visual elements in review articles: tables, figures, and boxes

12.5 Checklist for review article manuscripts

12.6 Submission and revision of review articles

Section 3: Getting your manuscript published

Chapter 13 Submitting a manuscript

13.1 Five practices of successful authors

13.2 Understanding the peer-review process

13.3 Understanding the editor's role

13.4 The contributor's covering letter

13.5 Understanding the reviewer's role

13.6 Understanding the editor's role (continued)

Chapter 14 How to respond to editors and reviewers

14.1 Rules of thumb

14.2 How to deal with manuscript rejection

14.3 How to deal with "conditional acceptance" or "revise and resubmit"

Chapter 15 A process for preparing a manuscript

15.1 Initial preparation steps

15.2 Editing procedures

15.3 A pre-review checklist

Section 4: Developing your writing and publication skills further

Chapter 16 Skill-development strategies for groups and individuals

16.1 Journal clubs

16.2 Writing groups

16.3 Selecting feedback strategies for different purposes.

16.4 Becoming a reviewer

16.5 Training for responding to reviewers

Chapter 17 Developing discipline-specific English skills

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Error types and editor expectations of language use

17.3 Strategic (and acceptable!) language re-use: sentence templates

17.4 More about noun phrases

17.5 Concordancing: a tool for developing your discipline-specific English

17.6 Using the English articles (a/an, the) appropriately in science writing

17.7 Using "which" and "that"

Chapter 18 Writing funding proposals

18.1 Introduction

18.2 A process for preparing and submitting a funding proposal

18.3 Easy mistakes to make

Section 5: Provided example articles

Chapter 19 PEA1: Kaiser et al. (2003)

Chapter 20 PEA2: Britton-Simmons and Abbott (2008)

Chapter 21 PEA3: Ganci et al. (2012)

Answer pages

Appendix: Measures of journal impact and quality

A.1 Journal impact

A.2 Using indices of journal quality

References

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Cargill, Margaret Writing Scientific Research Articles

ISBN:

9781118570661

OCLC:

841915114