Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words, Second Edition by David Lindsay

 

Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words, Second Edition
by David Lindsay
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1486311474 | 181 Pages | PDF | 4.64 MB

Telling people about research is just as important as doing it. But many competent researchers are wary of scientific writing, despite its importance for sharpening scientific thinking, advancing their career, obtaining funding for their work and growing the prestige of their institution. This second edition of David Lindsay's popular book Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words presents a way of thinking about writing that builds on the way good scientists think about research. The simple principles in this book will help you to clarify the objectives of your work and present your results with impact. Fully updated throughout, with practical examples of good and bad writing, an expanded chapter on writing for non-scientists and a new chapter on writing grant applications, this book makes communicating research easier and encourages researchers to write confidently. It is an ideal reference for researchers preparing journal articles, posters, conference presentations, reviews and popular articles; for students preparing theses; and for researchers whose first language is not English.

Reference Textbooks and Books on Academic and Technical Writing for undergraduate studies in science, tech and engineering.

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• Creating Research and Scientific Documents Using Microsoft Word
• Author: Alexander Mamishev, Murray Sargent
• Length: 288 pages
• Edition: 1
• Language: English
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Publication Date: 2013-11-01
• ISBN-10: 0735670447
• ISBN-13: 9780735670440

Research fuels innovation—and with this focused guide to Microsoft Word, you can help increase your team’s collaborative power and effectiveness, and bring new research to life. Writing proposals, reports, journal articles, theses, and other technical documents as a team poses unique challenges, not the least of which is consistent presentation and voice. You must also manage the formatting and accuracy of figures, equations, and citations, and comply with the style rules of external publications. In this book you’ll learn from the authors’ extensive experience managing the authoring and publication of technical content, and gain specific practices and templates you can apply right away.

• Focuses on the unique challenges of writing and producing documents in an academic or commercial R&D setting
• Demonstrates how to use Microsoft Word to increase the quality of collaborative document preparation—including formatting, editing, citations management, commenting, and version control
• Includes downloadable templates that help automate creation of scientific documents
• Offers best-practices guidance for writing in teams and writing in the scientific genre

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Using templates in Word 2013
Chapter 2: How to design templates
Chapter 3: How to work with headings
Chapter 4: How to work with figures
Chapter 5: How to work with tables
Chapter 6: How to work with equations
Chapter 7: How to work with citations

Appendix A: Becoming a Microsoft Word 2013 power user
Appendix B: About STREAM Tools
Appendix C: File template for a single-column report or paper
Appendix D: File template for a double-column paper
Appendix E: File template for a thesis, book, or long report
Appendix F: IEEE template with STREAM Tools enabled
Appendix G: NIH template with STREAM Tools enabled