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| Preface | |
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| Credits | |
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| The Goal: Clear Writing | |
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| The Purpose of This Book | |
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| Reasons for Writing Clearly | |
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| The Scope of This Book | |
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| The Approach Taken in This Book | |
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| An Overview of the Main Principles of Writing Presented in This Book | |
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| Using This Book | |
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| The Building Blocks of Writing | |
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| Word Choice | |
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| Principles of Word Choice | |
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| Words Carelessly Interchanged | |
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| Words Carelessly Interchanged | |
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| Sentence Structure | |
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| Express the Core of the Message in the Subject, Verb, and Completer | |
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| Express the Core of the Message in the Subject, Verb, and Completer | |
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| Avoid Noun Clusters | |
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| Untangling Noun Clusters | |
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| Write Short Sentences | |
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| Overloaded Sentences | |
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| Use Clear Pronouns | |
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| Clear Pronouns | |
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| Put Parallel Ideas in Parallel Form | |
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| Parallelism in Sentences | |
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| Parallelism in Comparisons | |
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| Avoid Writing Flaws | |
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| Paragraph Structure | |
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| Organization | |
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| Topic Sentences and Supporting Sentences | |
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| Continuity | |
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| Repeating Key Terms Exactly and Early | |
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| A Lumped Transport Model to Determine Resin Capacity as a Function of Bed Height and Flow Rate | |
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| Linking Key Terms | |
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| Repeating and Linking Key Terms | |
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| The Value of Transitions | |
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| Transition Phrases | |
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| Transition Clauses | |
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| Keeping a Consistent Point of View and a Consistent Order | |
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| Signaling Subtopics | |
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| Parallel Form and Signaling Subtopics | |
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| Emphasis | |
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| Condensing | |
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| Summary of Guidelines for Paragraph Structure | |
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| The Text of The Biomedical Research Paper | |
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| The Introduction | |
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| Functions | |
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| Story Line | |
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| Content for Hypothesis-Testing Papers | |
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| Organization for Hypothesis-Testing Papers | |
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| Writing | |
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| Length | |
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| Content and Organization for Descriptive Papers | |
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| Content and Organization for "Methods Papers" | |
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| Details | |
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| Summary of Guidelines for Introductions of Hypothesis-Testing Papers and of Descriptive Papers | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Materials and Methods | |
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| Function | |
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| Story Line | |
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| Content | |
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| Organization | |
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| Length | |
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| Details | |
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| Summary of Guidelines for the Materials and Methods Section | |
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| A Clearly Written Methods Section | |
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| Content and Organization in the Methods Section | |
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| Results | |
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| Functions | |
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| Story Line | |
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| Content | |
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| Organization | |
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| Emphasis | |
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| Length | |
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| Details | |
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| Summary of Guidelines for Results | |
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| Results | |
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| Results | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Functions | |
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| Story Line | |
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| Content | |
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| Organization | |
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| Length | |
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| Subheadings | |
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| Summary of Guidelines for Discussions | |
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| Following the Story in a Discussion | |
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| Message and Story in the Discussion | |
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| Supporting Information | |
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| Figures and Tables | |
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| Figures | |
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| Tables | |
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| Telling a Story | |
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| Summary of Guidelines for Figures and Tables | |
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| Design of Figures and Tables and Their Relation to the Text | |
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| Table Design and Relation to the Text | |
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| References | |
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| Purposes | |
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| Selecting References | |
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| Accuracy | |
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| Incorporating References Into the Text | |
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| Systems for Citing References | |
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| Summary of Guidelines for References | |
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| The Overview | |
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| The Abstract | |
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| Function | |
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| Abstracts of Hypothesis-Testing Papers | |
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| Abstracts of Descriptive Papers | |
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| Abstracts of Methods Papers | |
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| Indexing Terms | |
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| Abstracts for Meetings | |
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| Summary of Guidelines for Abstracts | |
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| Abstracts | |
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| The Title | |
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| Functions | |
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| Content of Titles for Hypothesis-Testing Papers | |
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| Content of Titles for Descriptive Papers | |
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| Content of Titles for Methods Papers | |
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| Hallmarks of a Good Title | |
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| Details | |
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| Running Titles | |
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| Summary of Guidelines for Titles | |
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| Titles | |
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| The Big Picture | |
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| Checklist for the Big Picture | |
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| Seeing the Big Picture | |
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| Reaching The Goal: Suggestions For Writing | |
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| Writing the First Draft | |
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| Revising: Using the Checklists | |
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| The Rewards of Clear Writing | |
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| Revisions of Exercises | |
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| Literature Cited | |
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| Words Explained in the Text | |
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| Index | |