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The Scientist's Guide to Writing, 3rd Edition : How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heard, Stephen B.
- Series:
- Skills for Scholars Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- A fully updated and expanded third edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientists The Scientist's Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists need to write more clearly, efficiently, and easily.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- What's New in the Third Edition?
- Preface
- A Note on the Exercises
- Part I: What Writing Is
- 1. On Bacon, Hobbes, and Newton, and the Selfishness of Writing Well
- 2. Genius, Craft, and What This Book Is About
- Part II: Writing Behavior
- 3. Writing and Reading
- 4. Managing Your Writing Behavior
- 5. Getting Started
- 6. Momentum
- Part III: Content and Structure
- 7. Finding and Telling Your Story
- 8. The Canonical Structure of the Scientific Paper
- 9. Front Matter and Abstract
- 10. The Introduction Section
- 11. The Methods Section
- 12. The Results Section
- 13. The Discussion Section
- 14. Back Matter
- 15. Citations
- 16. Beyond the IMRaD Canon
- Part IV: Style
- 17. Paragraphs
- 18. Sentences
- 19. Words
- 20. Brevity
- Part V: Revision
- 21. Self-Revision
- 22. "Friendly" Review
- 23. Formal Review
- 24. Revision and the "Response to Reviews
- Part VI: Some Loose Threads
- 25. AI Writing Tools
- 26. Journals and Preprints
- 27. The Diversity of Writing Forms
- 28. Managing Coauthorships
- 29. Three Kinds of Reading: Reference, Survey, and Deep
- 30. Writing for Speakers of English as an Additional Language
- Part VII: Final Thoughts
- 31. On Whimsy, Jokes, and Beauty: Can Scientific Writing Be Enjoyed
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Heard, Stephen B. The Scientist's Guide to Writing, 3rd Edition
- ISBN:
- 9780691281094
- OCLC:
- 1593371125
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