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| Preface | |
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| General Advice About Writing and Reading Chemistry | |
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| Writing: A Threshold Skill | |
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| What Do Chemists Write About and Why? | |
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| The Keys to Success | |
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| Ten Strategies for Preparing Your First Draft | |
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| Ten Strategies for Revising and Editing: Getting to Your Final Draft | |
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| Rules and Conventions: the Easy Stuff | |
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| The Essential Last Pass: Proofread | |
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| General Advice on Reading and Note-Taking | |
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| Why Read and What to Read | |
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| Effective Reading | |
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| Effective Note-Taking and Note-Organizing | |
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| Reading Data: Plumbing the Depths of Figures and Tables | |
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| Reading Text: Summarize As You Go | |
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| Plagiarism and Note-Taking | |
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| Checklist for Reading and Note-Taking | |
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| Citing Sources and Listing References | |
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| Citing Sources | |
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| Some Guidelines for Citing Sources In Chemistry | |
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| Preparing the References Section | |
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| A Sample References Page | |
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| Checklist for Citing Sources | |
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| Checklist for Preparing the References Section | |
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| Revising | |
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| Why Revise? | |
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| Revising for Content | |
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| Revising for Clarity | |
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| Revising for Completeness | |
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| Checklist for Revising | |
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| Editing for Concision and ACS Style | |
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| Editing for Gender Neutral Language | |
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| Editing for Concision | |
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| Editing for ACS Style: Some Guidelines | |
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| Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
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| Capitalization for Chemists | |
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| Hyphens | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Chemistry Specific Conventions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Guidelines for Specific Tasks | |
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| Keeping Laboratory Notebooks | |
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| The Role of Laboratory Instruction | |
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| The Teaching Laboratory Notebook | |
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| The Research Laboratory Notebook | |
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| Checklist for Final Draft | |
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| The Role of Lab Instruction | |
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| Writing Reports of Teaching Laboratory Experiments | |
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| Composition of the Report | |
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| Checklist for a Final Draft | |
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| Writing Summaries and Critiques | |
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| Writing the First Draft | |
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| Writing the Summary | |
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| Writing the Critique | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Checklists tor Summaries and Critiques | |
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| Writing Essays and Review Papers | |
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| Writing to Learn | |
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| Why Bother? | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Researching Your Topic | |
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| Developing a Thesis Statement | |
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| Writing the Paper | |
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| Plagiarism | |
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| Citing Sources | |
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| Creating a Title | |
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| Revising and Editing | |
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| Checklist for Writing Essays and Review Papers | |
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| The Plagiarism Challenge | |
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| The Citing Sources Challenge | |
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| Writing Research Reports The Nature of Scientific Research Components of a Research Report | |
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| Longer Reports | |
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| Publication of Research Results | |
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| Preparing a Manuscript as Though for Publication | |
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| Checklist for a Final Draft | |
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| Writing Research Proposals | |
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| The Research Proposal as Persuasive Writing | |
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| What Are Reviewers Looking For? | |
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| Researching Your Topic | |
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| What Makes a Good Research Topic? | |
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| Writing the Proposal | |
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| Tightening the Logic | |
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| A Real Research Proposal | |
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| Checklist for a Final Draft | |
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| Answering Timed Essay Questions | |
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| Basic Principles | |
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| Applying the Principles | |
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| The Writing Component of the Graduate Record Exam | |
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| Checklist for Answering Timed Essay Questions | |