Description
Scientists and engineers are great at science and engineering, but they're generally not the world's greatest writers. Writing Scientific Papers and Technical Reports presents jargon-free tips on how to write a scientific paper or technical report that will have people talking — for all the right reasons.
Scientific writing is widely perceived to be writing that is so complex that only a scientist could understand it. This misapprehension is deeply regrettable, although not without foundation. Let's be honest: much scientific and technical writing is jargonistic, verbose and pompous. It's quite possible that many scientists and engineers write this way because they think it's expected of them.
Not so. Scientific and technical writing is about communicating. More specifically, it's about accurately communicating your ideas to your readers. When you write a report or paper, you're attempting, through the use of written symbols, to move information and concepts from your mind to the minds of other people.
Why then would you deliberately make your writing less clear than it could be?
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"I read it cover to cover after I downloaded it yesterday, and I am very, very impressed with it. Clear, concise, and loaded with informational tidbits that takes a lot of digging to find in other books. You have done an excellent job!"
Nancy Plunkett
If you publish in journals, most of your readers will never meet you. The way you write is thus one of the few tools you have at your disposal to convince them to take you seriously. If you present your ideas in an unnecessarily complicated fashion then you've failed to meet your principle objective, which is to communicate clearly. Writing Scientific Papers and Technical Reports will help you to be a better writer.
Writing Scientific Papers and Technical Reports is available for just US$12.95. Within this 78-page downloadable book, you'll find:
widely applicable strategies for better scientific writing;
four guidelines for choosing a title;
four guidelines for writing your abstract;
five guidelines for writing your introduction;
five guidelines for describing your methods;
three guidelines for describing your results;
three guidelines for writing your discussion;
three guidelines for writing your conclusions;
a thorough coverage of the author-date (Harvard) referencing system;
thirteen guidelines for formatting tables;
numerous guidelines for writing numbers and spans;
a clear discussion of when to write a number in words;
a thorough coverage of metric units and metric prefixes;
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José A. Mari Mutt
Editor, Caribbean Journal of Science
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