Scientific Writing (eBook)

Easy When You Know How

Jennifer Peat, Elizabeth Elliott, Louise Baur, Victoria Keena (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-71601-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This comprehensive and practical book covers the basics of grammar as well as the broad brush issues such as writing a grant application and selling to your potential audience. The clear explanations are expanded and lightened with helpful examples and telling quotes from the giants of good writing. These experienced writers and teachers make scientific writing enjoyable.

Jennifer Peat is Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and Senior Hospital Statistician, Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW Australia.

Elizabeth Elliott is a professor in the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, The Children's Hospital at Westmead.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Title Page 5
Contents 7
Introduction 11
Acknowledgements 14
Foreword 15
1: Scientific writing 19
Reasons to publish 19
Rewards for being a good writer 21
Making it happen 23
Achieving creativity 25
Thought, structure, and style 26
The thrill of acceptance 27
2: Getting started 30
Forming a plan 30
Choosing a journal 35
Uniform requirements 39
Instructions to authors 41
Standardised reporting guidelines 42
Authorship 47
Contributions 59
3: Writing your paper 66
Abstract 67
Introduction 69
Methods 72
Results 81
Discussion 103
Summary guidelines 107
4: Finishing your paper 111
Choosing a title 111
Title page 118
References and citations 119
Peer review 124
Processing feedback 127
Checklists and instructions to authors 128
Creating a good impression 130
Submitting your paper 133
Archiving and documentation 135
5: Review and editorial processes 139
Peer-reviewed journals 139
Revise and resubmit 143
Replying to reviewers’ comments 145
Handling rejection 148
Editorial process 150
Page proofs 151
Copyright laws 153
Releasing results to the press 154
Becoming a reviewer 156
Writing review comments 158
Becoming an editor 161
6: Publishing 165
Duplicate publication 165
Reporting results from large studies 167
Policies for data sharing 168
Fast tracking and early releases 170
Electronic journals and eletters 171
Netprints 173
Citation index 175
Impact factors 176
7: Other types of documents 183
Letters 183
Editorials 186
Narrative reviews 187
Systematic reviews and Cochrane reviews 190
Case reports 194
Postgraduate theses 196
8: Writing style 206
Plain English 206
Topic sentences 207
Subjects, verbs, and objects 209
Eliminating fog 210
Say what you mean 213
Word order 215
Creating flow 217
Tight writing 220
Chopping up snakes 224
Parallel structures 226
Style matters 228
9: Grammar 232
Nouns 233
Adjectives 237
Verbs 239
Adverbs 247
Pronouns and determiners 249
Conjunctions and prepositions 253
Phrases 257
Clauses 258
Which and that 261
Grammar matters 262
10: Word choice 264
Label consistently 264
Participants are people 266
Word choice 268
Avoid emotive words 269
Because 271
Levels and concentrations 273
Untying the negatives 273
Abbreviations 275
Spelling 276
Words matter 277
11: Punctuation 279
Full stops and ellipses 279
Colons and semicolons 280
Commas 281
Apostrophes 284
Parentheses and square brackets 285
Slashes, dashes, and hyphens 288
Punctuation matters 289
12: Support systems 291
Searching the internet 291
Writers’ groups 292
Avoiding writer’s block 299
Mentoring 300
Index 306

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Basics • broad • brush • CITE • clear • Enjoyable • Examples • experienced • explanations • Giants • Good • grammar • helpful • Krankenpflege • Medical Science • Medical Writing • Medizin • nursing • Practical • Quadrant • Quotes • Scientific • two • Verfassen medizinischer Texte
• ISBN-10: 0-470-71601-0 / 0470716010
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-71601-4 / 9780470716014