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Scientific writing = thinking in words /

Main Author: Lindsay, D. R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Scientific writing equals thinking in words Collingwood, VIC : CSIRO Pub., c2011.
Subjects:
Technical writing > Study and teaching
Communication of technical information
Table of Contents:
  • Thinking about your writing
  • Getting into the mood for writing
  • What is a 'good' style for scientific writing?
  • The fundamentals of building the scientific article
  • Getting started
  • Writing about your thinking
  • The Title
  • The Introduction
  • The reasoning behind the hypothesis
  • -the other part of the Introduction
  • The Materials and Methods
  • The Results
  • What to present
  • What form of presentation? Tables, figures or text?
  • Graphs or tables?
  • Use of statistics in presentation of results
  • The Discussion
  • What makes an effective Discussion?
  • What is there to discuss?
  • Giving impact to your scientific story
  • The paragraph as a vehicle for your arguments
  • Speculation in the Discussion
  • The length of the Discussion
  • Citations in the Discussion
  • Checking the logic of the Discussion
  • The Summary or Abstract
  • Constructing the Summary
  • The other bits
  • Authorship
  • Acknowledgements
  • The Bibliography
  • Editing for readability and style
  • Eliminating verbal stumbling blocks
  • The seven verbal stumbling blocks
  • Delivering the written word in a way that matches the way a reader reads
  • Where to from here?
  • Final editing for style
  • Choosing the journal
  • Sending to the journal
  • Coping with editors, referees and reviewers
  • Re-submitting to the journal
  • Thinking and writing beyond the scientific article
  • The text for oral presentation at a scientific seminar
  • Structure
  • Design and preparation of posters for conferences
  • What makes a successful poster?
  • The structure of a successful poster
  • The review
  • The structure of the review
  • New ideas
  • The literature
  • Being specific
  • Some common difficulties with reviews
  • Writing science for non-scientists
  • What a reader wants to read and a scientist wants to say
  • What makes a good article?
  • The essential ingredients
  • Constructing the article
  • The final inspection
  • The thesis
  • Form and layout of a thesis
  • Review of the literature in the thesis
  • Getting down to business in writing the thesis
  • -the working summary
  • Using the working summary.

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