Successful scientific writing: a step-by-step guide for the biological and medical sciences
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Preface
tage ix
Preface to the third edition
x
1
PREPARING TO WRITE
1-30
Search and research
]
Conducting a comprehensive literature review
Using the Internet wisely and well
Tapping other informal and formal communication
channels
Your research: the big picture
Choose a communication venue
13
Formal publication: the message determines the medium
Other ways to publish
Plan to succeed
21
Organize and plan your message
Avoid plagiarism
Use the Process Approach to take charge
Exercise
1.1.
Search strategy and Boolean logic
Exercise
1.2.
Message, format, and audience
Exercise
1.3.
Organizing ideas
2
COMPOSING A FIRST DRAFT
31-55
Deal with matters of authorship
31
Productivity tools and pitfalls
33
Use word processing to write more efficiently
Master the tools that will make your writing life simpler
Spellcheckers, grammar and style analysis programs
Follow standard structure
42
Introduction
Materials and methods
Results
Discussion and conclusions
vi
Contents
Acknowledgments
References
Abstracts and summaries
The title
Other title page items
Use tense to show the status of work
48
Build momentum
-
and keep it!
50
Exercise
2.1.
Spelling and grammar programs
Exercise
2.2.
Title choices
Exercise
2.3.
Tense use
3
VISUAL SUPPORT FOR THE WRITTEN WORD
56-78
Choosing and using visual aids
56
Tables
Figures
Graphs
Photographs and other documentary illustrations
Explanatory artwork
Examining your choices
75
Exercise
3.1.
Table and figure choices
4
VISUAL SUPPORT FOR THE SPOKEN WORD
79-102
Oral presentations
80
Media choices for oral presentations
Developing a traditional text-based oral presentation
Visual elements of text, tables, and figures
The PowerPoint controversy
Speaking in public: the human factor
91
Control nervousness
Delivering the speech or presentation
Handling questions
Poster presentations: a happy hybrid
Preparing a poster
Presenting a poster
Exercise
4.1.
Slide presentation format
Exercise
4.2.
Answering questions
5
REVISING TO INCREASE COHERENCE
103-124
Work efficiently
103
Start with organization and logic
Use the power at your command
Improve the big picture
Ю5
Rework for clarity
Rewrite for readability
Condense for brevitv
Contents
vii
When short might be too short
118
Abbreviations, acronyms, and other shortened
forms
Noun clusters and strings of pearls
Exercise
5.1.
Person and point of view
Exercise
5.2.
Readability
Exercise
5.3.
Shortened forms
Exercise
5.4.
Clarity and brevity
6
IMPROVING WORD CHOICE, AND SYNTAX STYLE
125-152
Choose a better word
126
Recognize and minimize jargon
Use bias-free, inclusive language
Choose the right word
Focus fuzzy nouns and qualifiers
Check the verbs
139
Choose livelier verbs
Unmask disguised verbs
Active and passive voice
Subject-verb agreement
Beware of strange links
145
Ambiguous antecedents and misplaced modifiers
Dangling participles
The mischief of multiples
148
Collective nouns and noun phrases
The grammar of comparisons and lists
Exercise
6.1.
Jargon
Exercise
6.2.
Handling language sensitively
Exercise
6.3.
Devil pairs
Exercise
6.4.
Which and that
Exercise
6.5.
Fuzzy words and disguised verbs
Exercise
6.6.
Active and passive voice
Exercise
6.7.
Subject-verb agreement
Exercise
6.8.
Dangling participles and other misplaced
modifiers
Exercise
6.9.
Collective nouns, comparisons, and lists
7
ATTENDING TO GRAMMAR, NUMBERS, AND OTHER
MECHANICS
153-181
Tweak the text
153
Punctuate for clarity
Capitalize consistently
Treat scientific names properly
Use foreign words and phrases to inform, not impress
viii Contents
Fine-tune number use
170
Numerals versus written numbers
The SI metric system for measurements and weights
Very large and very small numbers
Percentages
Practicing mixed corrections
179
Exercise
7.1.
Punctuation
Exercise
7.2.
Capitalization
Exercise
7.3.
Scientific names and other foreign words and
phrases
Exercise
7.4.
Number use and interpretation
Exercise
7.5.
Practicing mixed corrections
8
the rest of the story
182-208
Preparing to publish
182
Double-check references and attributions
Verify submission format
Submit the document
Remember Murphy s Laws
Back and forth: editorial review
188
Correct galley proof conscientiously
Celebrate
-
You have published!
Tips for international publication
192
Address second-language English readers effectively
Choose an effective approach when writing English as a
second language
Usage and grammar pitfalls for
nonnative
writers
Ethical issues
198
Respect your data
—
and your readers
Check again for plagiarism
Protect yourself from potential libel and slander charges
Legal matters
202
Trade names
Copyright
Permissions
Patents
Appendix
1:
Suggested responses to exercises
209
Appendix
2:
Excerpts from Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted
to
biomedical
journals: Writing and editing for
biomedical
publication
221
Selected resources
232
Index
236
The detailed, practical, step-by-step advice in
this user-friendly guide will help students and
researchers to communicate their work more
effectively through the written word. Covering
all aspects of the writing process, this concise,
accessible resource is critically acclaimed,
well-structured, comprehensive, and
entertaining. Self-help exercises and abundant
examples from actual typescripts draw on the
authors extensive experience working both as
researchers and with them.
Whilst retaining the accessible and pragmatic
style of earlier editions, this third edition has
been updated and broadened to incorporate such
timely topics as guidelines for successful
international publication, ethical and legal issues
including plagiarism and falsified data, electronic
publication, and text-based talks and poster
presentations.
With advice applicable to many writing
contexts in the majority of scientific disciplines,
this book is a powerful tool for improving
individual skills and an eminently suitable text
for classroom courses or seminars.
[ANICE R.
MATTHEWS is a writer and
educator with a broad background in the
biological sciences. She has 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 losiah Meigs
Distinguished Teaching Professor at the
University of Georgia and a member of
the UGA Teaching Academy. An insect
behavior specialist, his scientific
publications number over
165
research
articles.
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