Product Description
Successful Scientific Writing is a user-friendly book providing detailed practical guidance to help students and researchers in the biological and medical sciences to communicate their work effectively through the published literature. This step-by-step guide covers all aspects of manuscript preparation from first to final draft, including word processor use and electronic database literature searches. Numerous examples, practical tips, and self-help exercises draw on the authors’ extensive experience with actual manuscripts. Applicable to a variety of science writing contexts in the majority of scientific disciplines, Successful Scientific Writing is a powerful tool for improving individual skills, as well as an eminently suitable text for a classroom course or seminar on science writing.
Found it useful for writing my class papers it gives you a way to organize your thoughts before writing them!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is very helpful and very informative. The authors present the information that is needed so that it is easy to digest.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book has greatly improved my writing. It is easy and enjoyable to read and very informative. I highly recommend it for anyone writing a thesis, manuscripts, etc.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book provides a useful description of the entire process of writing manuscripts, from information acquisition and literature searches to a very lengthy description of the editing process. There is very little information on the actual contents of the manuscript. I was looking for an in-depth description of each section of the manuscript and possibly some suggestions or helpful hints. Writing of the manuscript and the contents of each section is limited to a few sentences on each section. I was looking for a book that guides someone early in their scientific career through the process of writing the actual manuscript, rather than focusing so heavily on the editing process, as this book does.
Rating: 2 / 5
it is unfortunate the authors did not review the most recent scientific style and format conventions of the council of biology editors(accepted internationally) that were published in 1994. had they done so, they would not have made a number of the errors that show up scattered about in the text. i use parts of this text , especially the exercises, in a course i teach on scientific writing and have to make the corrections as we go along
Rating: 4 / 5