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Scientific papers and presentations / Martha Davis ; illustrations by Gloria Fry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Diego : Academic Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: xviii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0122063708
  • 9780122063701
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.0665
LOC classification:
  • T11 .D324 1997
Contents:
1. To the Fledgling Scientist -- 2. Before You Begin -- 3. Organizing and Writing a Rough Draft -- 4. Searching and Reviewing Scientific Literature -- 5. The Proposal -- 6. The Graduate Thesis -- 7. Publishing in Scientific Journals -- 8. Style and Accuracy in the Final Draft -- 9. Reviewing and Revising -- 10. Titles and Abstracts -- 11. Presenting Data -- 12. Ethical and Legal Issues -- 13. Scientific Presentations -- 14. Communication without Words -- 15. Visual Aids to Communication -- 16. The Slide Presentation -- 17. Poster Presentations -- 18. Group Communications -- 19. Communicating with Other Audiences -- App. 1. Weaknesses in Scientific Writing -- App. 2. Sample Literature Review -- App. 3. Sample Proposal -- App. 4. Alternate Routes to the Thesis -- App. 5. Sample Review of Manuscript Submitted for Publication -- App. 6. Evolution of a Title -- App. 7. Evolution of an Abstract -- App. 8. Putting Data into Tables and Figures -- --
1. The semantic environment of science -- 2. Before you begin -- 3. Organizing and writing a rough draft -- 4. Searching and reviewing scientific literature -- 5. The proposal -- 6. The graduate thesis -- 7. Publishing in scientific journals -- 8. Style and accuracy in the final draft -- 9. Reviewing and revising -- 10. Titles and abstracts -- 11. Presenting data -- 12. Ethical and legal issues -- 13. Scientific presentations -- 14. Communication without words -- 15. Visual aids to communication -- 16. The oral presentation -- 17. Poster presentations -- 18. Group communications -- 19. Communicating with other audiences -- 20. To the international student -- App. Weaknesses in scientific writing.
Summary: From the beginning of their careers, and forever after, scientists are called upon to do various kinds of writing and speaking. Communication skills are among the qualities most prized by those who hire and promote scientists. Scientific Papers and Presentations provides a concise guide to effective written and oral communication, including posters, presentations, abstracts, journal publications, literature reviews, and theses. Based on the author's fifteen years of experience advising young scientists about scientific writing, this book can be used as a text for courses and seminars on scientific writing and presentation. It is a handy and valuable reference for fledgling scientists.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-289) and index.

1. To the Fledgling Scientist -- 2. Before You Begin -- 3. Organizing and Writing a Rough Draft -- 4. Searching and Reviewing Scientific Literature -- 5. The Proposal -- 6. The Graduate Thesis -- 7. Publishing in Scientific Journals -- 8. Style and Accuracy in the Final Draft -- 9. Reviewing and Revising -- 10. Titles and Abstracts -- 11. Presenting Data -- 12. Ethical and Legal Issues -- 13. Scientific Presentations -- 14. Communication without Words -- 15. Visual Aids to Communication -- 16. The Slide Presentation -- 17. Poster Presentations -- 18. Group Communications -- 19. Communicating with Other Audiences -- App. 1. Weaknesses in Scientific Writing -- App. 2. Sample Literature Review -- App. 3. Sample Proposal -- App. 4. Alternate Routes to the Thesis -- App. 5. Sample Review of Manuscript Submitted for Publication -- App. 6. Evolution of a Title -- App. 7. Evolution of an Abstract -- App. 8. Putting Data into Tables and Figures -- --

1. The semantic environment of science -- 2. Before you begin -- 3. Organizing and writing a rough draft -- 4. Searching and reviewing scientific literature -- 5. The proposal -- 6. The graduate thesis -- 7. Publishing in scientific journals -- 8. Style and accuracy in the final draft -- 9. Reviewing and revising -- 10. Titles and abstracts -- 11. Presenting data -- 12. Ethical and legal issues -- 13. Scientific presentations -- 14. Communication without words -- 15. Visual aids to communication -- 16. The oral presentation -- 17. Poster presentations -- 18. Group communications -- 19. Communicating with other audiences -- 20. To the international student -- App. Weaknesses in scientific writing.

From the beginning of their careers, and forever after, scientists are called upon to do various kinds of writing and speaking. Communication skills are among the qualities most prized by those who hire and promote scientists. Scientific Papers and Presentations provides a concise guide to effective written and oral communication, including posters, presentations, abstracts, journal publications, literature reviews, and theses. Based on the author's fifteen years of experience advising young scientists about scientific writing, this book can be used as a text for courses and seminars on scientific writing and presentation. It is a handy and valuable reference for fledgling scientists.

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