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Preface | |
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Thinking about your writing | |
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Getting into the mood for writing | |
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What is a 'good' style for scientific writing? | |
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The fundamentals of building the scientific article | |
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Getting started | |
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Writing about your thinking | |
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The Title | |
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The Introduction | |
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The reasoning behind the hypothesis-the other part of the Introduction | |
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The Materials and Methods | |
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The Results | |
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What to present | |
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What form of presentation? Tables, figures or text? | |
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Graphs or tables? | |
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Use of statistics in presentation of results | |
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The Discussion | |
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What makes an effective Discussion? | |
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What is there to discuss? | |
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Giving impact to your scientific story | |
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The paragraph as a vehicle for your arguments | |
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Speculation in the Discussion | |
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The length of the Discussion | |
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Citations in the Discussion | |
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Checking the logic of the Discussion | |
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The Summary or Abstract | |
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Constructing the Summary | |
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The other bits | |
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Authorship | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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The Bibliography | |
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Editing for readability and style | |
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Eliminating verbal stumbling blocks | |
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The seven verbal stumbling blocks | |
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Delivering the written word in a way that matches the way a reader reads | |
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Where to from here? | |
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Final editing for style | |
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Choosing the journal | |
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Sending to the journal | |
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Coping with editors, referees and reviewers | |
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Re-submitting to the journal | |
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Thinking and writing beyond the scientific article | |
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The text for oral presentation at a scientific seminar | |
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Structure | |
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Design and preparation of posters for conferences | |
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What makes a successful poster? | |
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The structure of a successful poster | |
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The review | |
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The structure of the review | |
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New ideas | |
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The literature | |
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Being specific | |
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Some common difficulties with reviews | |
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Writing science for non-scientists | |
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What a reader wants to read and a scientist wants to say | |
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What makes a good article? | |
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The essential ingredients | |
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Constructing the article | |
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The final inspection | |
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The thesis | |
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Form and layout of a thesis | |
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Review of the literature in the thesis | |
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Getting down to business in writing the thesis-the working summary | |
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Using the working summary | |
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Index | |