A Short Guide to Writing about Biology, Books a la Carte Edition Plus MyWritingLab -- Access Card Package (8th Edition)

Pechenik, Jan A.

ISBN 10: 013406741X ISBN 13: 9780134067414

Publisher: Longman, 2014

About this title

About the Author:

Jan A. Pechenik is Professor of Biology at Tufts University, where he has been teaching and doing research since 1978. He obtained his B.A. in Zoology from Duke University and his Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. To date he has published over 50 papers on the development and metamorphosis of marine invertebrate animals, including snails, blue mussels, crabs, barnacles, polychaetes, bryozoans, and parasitic flatworms.

Professor Pechenik has also published a successful textbook on invertebrate biology, currently in its 3rd edition, and chairs the Division of Invertebrate Zoology within the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology (formerly the American Society of Zoologists). Committed to teaching as well as research, his highly praised book on this subject, A Short Guide to Writing About Biology, has just appeared in a fourth edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 013406741X
• ISBN 13: 9780134067414
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Number of pages: 920