Successful Scientific Writing – March 1, 1996

Successful Scientific Writing Hardcover – March 1, 1996

Author: Visit Amazon's Robert W. Matthews Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0521550882 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Successful Scientific Writing – March 1, 1996
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• Hardcover: 181 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521550882
• ISBN-13: 978-0521550888
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,180,981 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Our lab used this book for a study group on effective scientific writing. We are located in Korea, so with the exception of the instructor and I, all participants were not native speakers of English. As a result, this review is from the viewpoint of foreign students. It is based on chapter reviews written by the members of our lab after finishing the book.
The book is just what it claims to be, a step-by-step approach to writing a scientific manuscript intended for publication. The first chapter helpfully furnishes a checklist (Table 1.3) for preparing a research paper. The chapter is actually a summary of the rest of the book so a reader already in the process of writing can easily find which chapter they wish to skip to via Table 1.3.
In the subsequent chapters, the authors provide good advice accompanied by helpful tables, examples and exercises, although the figure chapter could have used more tips on actually preparing the figures. Examples of poorly prepared and corrected figures would be a useful study aid. One student suggested that the second chapter on computer use was not particularly informative for graduate-level students. Regarding the chapter on grammar (chapter 6), another student pointed out that in some scientific articles, ungrammatical sentences are not corrected in order to effectively deliver the point.
The overall use of informal expressions and phrases seemed intended to make the text livelier for English-speaking students, but was confusing for several participants with English as a second language. We would like to suggest that the authors take their own advice and refrain from using slang and jargon. Several of us liked Appendix 2 and thought it was a good read for those unfamiliar with the practice of journal editors.

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