Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals - Softcover

Day, Robert A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0897747224 ISBN 13: 9780897747226

Publisher: Oryx Pr, 1992

Synopsis

This handbook covers grammatical errors that are most likely to occur and most often overlooked. The author discusses problems in punctuation, word selection, tenses, sentence structure, prefixes and suffixes - all geared toward scientific writing.

About this title

Book Description:

The need for clear communication without the possibility for misinterpretation is critical in today's scientific world. While a failure to clearly state a scientific result might just mean the loss of a new technique or methodology, it could just as easily cause devastating results, such as a massive oil spill, a catastrophic transportation accident, or an uncontrolled epidemic.

About the Author:

ROBERT A. DAY is professor of English at the University of Delaware, Newark, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in scientific and technical writing. For 19 years, he directed the publishing program of the American Society for Microbiology and served as managing editor of the Journal of Bacteriology plus eight other journals published by ASM. He was also the director of the ISI Press and vice president of the Institute for Scientific Information. Day is past-president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and past-chairman of the Council of Biology Editors. He frequently gives seminars and workshops on scientific writing and has written extensively on all phases of scientific writing, editing, and publishing. Among his publications are How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper and Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and other Professionals, both published by Oryx Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oryx Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0897747224
• ISBN 13: 9780897747226
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112