Successful Scientific Writing Full Canadian binding: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Biological and Medical Sciences - Softcover

Matthews, Janice R.; Bowen, John M.; Matthews, Robert W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521559480 ISBN 13: 9780521559485

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Successful Scientific Writing is a user-friendly book providing detailed practical guidance to help students and researchers in the biological and medical sciences to communicate their work effectively through the published literature. This step-by-step guide covers all aspects of manuscript preparation from first to final draft, including word processor use and electronic database literature searches. Numerous examples, practical tips, and self-help exercises draw on the authors' extensive experience with actual manuscripts. Applicable to a variety of science writing contexts in the majority of scientific disciplines, Successful Scientific Writing is a powerful tool for improving individual skills, as well as an eminently suitable text for a classroom course or seminar on science writing.

About this title

Book Description

This step-by-step guide uses carefully chosen examples, practical tips and self-help exercises to cover all aspects of manuscript preparation from first to final draft. It will be uniquely valuable for improving individual skills, as well as an eminently suitable text for a classroom course or seminar on science writing.

About the Author

Janice Matthews is a scientist, writer, and educator with a broad background in the biological sciences and a professional focus on facilitating clearer communication of scientific material.  She has written and edited books, technical manuals, and hundreds of scientific research papers in the veterinary and biological sciences, both in university settings and for private industry. Robert W. Matthews is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia. An insect behavior specialist, his scientific publications number over 165 research articles. The two scientists have collaborated in entomological field studies in Australia, South and Central America, and the U.S.A. and have co-authored a number of technical and popular articles and books. They have six grown children and a Labradoodle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521559480
• ISBN 13: 9780521559485
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 195