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Summary
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements | p. v |
Tools and Techniques | |
The Standards of a Scientific Paper | p. 3 |
A Stereotyped Format | p. 3 |
Precise Language | p. 3 |
A Single, Clear Direction | p. 4 |
Reviewed and Made Available to Others | p. 4 |
Scientific Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs | p. 5 |
Scientific Text Needs Exactness and Clarity | p. 5 |
Write with Precision | p. 5 |
Scientific Use of Tenses | p. 7 |
The Paragraph Is the Unit of Exposition | p. 8 |
Each Paragraph Makes One Point | p. 8 |
Inside a Scientific Paragraph | p. 9 |
Connect Succeeding Paragraphs | p. 10 |
Writing Scientific Text | p. 13 |
Begin to Write While You Experiment | p. 13 |
Start Broadly, Work on the Details Later | p. 13 |
A Magnified View of the Writing Process | p. 14 |
Use the Skeletal Outlines | p. 14 |
Pile in Ideas | p. 15 |
Collect Information from Outside Resources | p. 16 |
Form Rough Sentences | p. 17 |
Arrange the Sentences into Themes | p. 18 |
Make Your Themed Lists into Rough Paragraphs | p. 19 |
Take a Break and Clear Your Mind | p. 21 |
Put Together One Paragraph for Each Topic | p. 21 |
Shape a Working Draft | p. 22 |
Smooth Transitions | p. 26 |
Polishing | p. 27 |
When to Stop Writing | p. 33 |
Advice to Speakers of Other Languages | p. 34 |
Presenting Numerical Data | p. 35 |
Tables | p. 37 |
Organize Your Data | p. 37 |
Inside Tables Use Numerical Order | p. 40 |
Examples | p. 42 |
Statistics | p. 43 |
Descriptive Statistics | p. 43 |
Inferential Statistics and Hypothesis Testing | p. 50 |
Use Statistics Thoughtfully | p. 57 |
Constructing Scientific Figures | p. 59 |
Basic Guidelines | p. 59 |
Figure Legends | p. 62 |
Numerical Figures | p. 62 |
Graphs | p. 62 |
Relationships Between Variables | p. 66 |
Aesthetics of Numerical Figures | p. 69 |
Preparation for Submission to a Journal | p. 70 |
Scientific Patterns Should Be Reproducible | p. 70 |
Writing a Research Paper | |
Writing During Research | p. 75 |
Keep a Computerized Notebook | p. 76 |
The Diary-Record Your Work Notes | p. 76 |
References-Archive Your Sources | p. 77 |
Begin a Draft Early | p. 78 |
Composing the Sections of a Research Paper | p. 79 |
Materials and Methods | p. 80 |
Recipes | p. 80 |
Writing Your Materials and Methods Section | p. 82 |
An Example of a Complete Materials and Methods Section | p. 92 |
Commit to a Few Key Variables | p. 93 |
Appendix | p. 95 |
Results | p. 97 |
Carving Out Your Results from Your Observations | p. 98 |
Exploratory Data Analysis | p. 101 |
Writing the Results | p. 105 |
An Example of a Complete Results Section | p. 117 |
Discussion | p. 118 |
Recap Your Results | p. 118 |
Archive Your Results | p. 121 |
Try to Make a Proposal | p. 125 |
An Example of a Complete Discussion Section | p. 132 |
Conclusion | p. 132 |
Limitations of This Study | p. 136 |
Introduction | p. 137 |
Define the Gap | p. 138 |
Begin with the Known | p. 138 |
Take a Direct Path to the Unknown | p. 139 |
Summarize Your Plan-of-Attack | p. 139 |
A Sampler of Introductions | p. 140 |
An Example of a Complete Introduction Section | p. 148 |
Abstract | p. 149 |
The Simple Abstract | p. 149 |
The Abstract with Subsections | p. 152 |
Key Words and the List of Nonstandard Abbreviations | p. 154 |
Key Words | p. 154 |
Alphabetical List of Nonstandard Abbreviations | p. 155 |
Title | p. 155 |
Footnotes | p. 157 |
Acknowledgements | p. 158 |
References | p. 159 |
Cite Original Sources | p. 160 |
Don't Cite Incomplete Sources | p. 160 |
Find the Appropriate Citation Formats | p. 161 |
Use Bibliographic Software | p. 162 |
Check Your Text Citations and Your Reference List | p. 162 |
Preparing a Manuscript for Submission | |
Choosing a Journal | p. 165 |
Make a List of Candidate Journals | p. 165 |
Consider Open Access Publishing | p. 166 |
Rank the Journals by Quality | p. 167 |
Aim for the Best and Toughest Journal | p. 167 |
Style Rules | p. 168 |
A Final Rewrite | p. 171 |
Get a Friendly Critique | p. 172 |
Read the Paper Back wards | p. 172 |
Recheck the Spelling | p. 174 |
Preparing and Submitting the Manuscript | p. 175 |
Print and Page Format | p. 175 |
The Manuscript Packet | p. 175 |
Page One | p. 175 |
Page Two | p. 176 |
Page Three | p. 177 |
Page Four | p. 177 |
The Last Pages | p. 177 |
The Introductory Letter | p. 177 |
Responding to Editors and Referees | p. 179 |
Homework | p. 179 |
The Comment-by-Comment Letter | p. 180 |
Stay Calm | p. 181 |
Words That Are Often Misused | p. 183 |
Simplifying Wordy, Redundant, and Awkward Phrases | p. 189 |
Standard Scientific Abbreviations | p. 191 |
Basic Rules | p. 191 |
Typical Bibliographic Formats | p. 195 |
Formats for Text Citations | p. 195 |
Bibliographic Formats for the References Section | p. 195 |
Articles | p. 195 |
Books | p. 196 |
Other | p. 197 |
Additional Reading | p. 199 |
Software Suggestions | p. 201 |
Index | p. 203 |
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