Organisation: The Better Writing Skills
Category: Technical report writing
Description: Scientists and engineers are great at science and engineering, but they're generally not the world's greatest writers. Writing Scientific Papers and Technical Reports presents jargon-free tips on how to write a scientific paper or technical report that will have people talking — for all the right reasons.
Scientific writing is widely perceived to be writing that is so complex that only a scientist could understand it. This misapprehension is deeply regrettable, although not without foundation. Let's be honest: much scientific and technical writing is jargonistic, verbose and pompous. It's quite possible that many scientists and engineers write this way because they think it's expected of them.
Not so. Scientific and technical writing is about communicating. More specifically, it's about accurately communicating your ideas to your readers. When you write a report or paper, you're attempting, through the use of written symbols, to move information and concepts from your mind to the minds of other people.
Writing Scientific Papers and Technical Reports is available for just US$12.95. Within this 78-page downloadable book, you'll find:
*widely applicable strategies for better scientific writing;
*four guidelines for choosing a title;
*four guidelines for writing your abstract;
*five guidelines for writing your introduction;
*five guidelines for describing your methods;
*three guidelines for describing your results;
*three guidelines for writing your discussion;
*three guidelines for writing your conclusions;
*a thorough coverage of the author-date (Harvard) referencing system;
*thirteen guidelines for formatting tables;
*numerous guidelines for writing numbers and spans;
*a clear discussion of when to write a number in words;
*a thorough coverage of metric units and metric prefixes;
Price: USD $12.95
Contact:
The Better Writing Skills
Scribe Consulting, 1, 66 Park Street
Como Perth
Western Australia 6152
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