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An essential guide for succeeding in today's competitive
environment, this book provides beginning scientists and
experienced researchers with practical advice on writing about
their work and getting published. This brand new, updated edition
also includes a new chapter on editing one's own work, a section on
publicizing and archiving one's paper, and updates on authorship,
including information on new authorship criteria and on the author
identification number ORCID. The book guides readers through the
processes involved in writing for and publishing in scientific
journals, from choosing a suitable journal, to writing each part of
the paper, to submitting the paper and responding to peer review,
through checking the proofs. It covers ethical issues in scientific
publishing, explains rights and permissions, and discusses writing
grant proposals, giving presentations and writing for general
audiences.
Thoroughly updated throughout, this classic, practical text on how
to write and publish a scientific paper takes its own advice to be
"as clear and simple as possible." "The purpose of scientific
writing," according to Barbara Gastel and Robert A. Day, "is to
communicate new scientific findings. Science is simply too
important to be communicated in anything other than words of
certain meaning." This clear, beautifully written, and often funny
text is a must-have for anyone who needs to communicate scientific
information, whether they're writing for a professor, other
scientists, or the general public. The thoughtfully revised ninth
edition retains the most important material-including preparing
text and graphics, publishing papers and other types of writing,
and plenty of information on writing style-while adding up-to-date
advice on copyright, presenting online, identifying authors,
creating visual abstracts, and writing in English as a non-native
language. A set of valuable appendixes provide ready reference,
including words and expressions to avoid, SI prefixes, a list of
helpful websites, and a glossary. Students and working scientists
will want to keep How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper at
their desks and refer to it at every stage of writing and
publication. Provides practical, easy-to-read, and immediately
applicable guidance on preparing each part of a scientific paper,
from the title and abstract to each section of the main text to
acknowledgments and references Explains step-by-step how to decide
to which journal to submit a paper, what happens to a paper after
submission, and how to work effectively with a journal throughout
the publication process Includes key advice on other communication
important to success in scientific careers, such as giving
presentations, writing proposals, and writing for a general
audience Presents updated information throughout and new material
on timely topics like copyright and presenting online
This entertaining and highly readable book gives anyone writing in
the sciences a clear and easy-to-follow guide to the English
language. English is often regarded as one of the most difficult
languages to master. Yet while the English language has a
vocabulary of upwards of 500,000 words, it only uses nine parts of
speech, and all of these words fall into one (or more) of those
nine categories. Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and
Other Professionals, Third Edition contains many simple revelations
like this that make effective scientific writing in English easy,
even for those whose fluency is in another language. The book is
organized around a basic guide to English grammar that is
specifically tailored to the needs of scientists, science writers,
science educators, and science students. The authors explain the
goals of scientific writing, the role of style, and the various
kinds of writing in the sciences, then provide a basic guide to the
fundamentals of English and address problem areas such as
redundancies, abbreviations and acronyms, jargon, and foreign
terms. Email, online publishing, blogs, and writing for the Web are
covered as well. This book is designed to be an enlightening and
entertaining read that can then be retained as a practical
scientific writing reference guide. Includes cartoons and humorous
illustrations that help reinforce important concepts Provides a
glossary that allows readers to easily reference the meanings of
grammatical terms used in the book Incorporates a wide variety of
quotations to provide humor, make points, or reinforce key concepts
Includes an entire chapter on electronic media as well as new
material on self-editing
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Graphics and Communications - Proceedings of an International Workshop Breuberg, FRG, October 15-17, 1990 (Hardcover, 1991 ed.)
David B. Arnold, Robert A. Day, David A. Duce, Christian Fuhrhop, Julian R. Gallop, …
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This volume is a record of the Workshop on Graphics and
Communications organized within ESPRIT II Project 2463 ARGOSI
(Applications Related Graphics and OSI Standards Integration). The
workshop was included in the Eurographics workshop programme for
1990. The ARGOSI project essentially arose from the observation
that international standards in the graphics and networking areas
were generally being developed in isolation and that insufficient
attention was being paid to the needs of applications whose
requirements spanned several standards. The importance of the
integration of graphics and networking has been growing over recent
years, with the growth of interest in multi-media systems to
support cooperative working, and the use of computer graphics
techniques in the visualization of the results of scientific and
engineering computations. The latter frequently involve high-speed
links between workstations and supercomputers. The presentations in
this volume cover a broad range of activities from a classification
scheme for graphics and networking to interconnection experiments
with broadband networks. Three topics were selected for detailed
discussion in working groups: - Improvements to the computer
graphics metafile standard, - The role of application profiles in
graphics data exchange, - The impact of multi-media. The volume
contains a record of the discussions and the recommendations from
the working groups, subsequently endorsed by the workshop.
Thoroughly updated throughout, this classic, practical text on how
to write and publish a scientific paper takes its own advice to be
"as clear and simple as possible." "The purpose of scientific
writing," according to Barbara Gastel and Robert A. Day, "is to
communicate new scientific findings. Science is simply too
important to be communicated in anything other than words of
certain meaning." This clear, beautifully written, and often funny
text is a must-have for anyone who needs to communicate scientific
information, whether they're writing for a professor, other
scientists, or the general public. The thoughtfully revised 9th
edition retains the most important material-including preparing
text and graphics, publishing papers and other types of writing,
and plenty of information on writing style-while adding up-to-date
advice on copyright, presenting online, identifying authors,
creating visual abstracts, and writing in English as a non-native
language. A set of valuable appendixes provide ready reference,
including words and expressions to avoid, SI prefixes, a list of
helpful websites, and a glossary. Students and working scientists
will want to keep How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper at
their desks and refer to it at every stage of writing and
publication. Provides practical, easy-to-read, and immediately
applicable guidance on preparing each part of a scientific paper
from the title and abstract to each section of the main text to
acknowledgments and references Explains step-by-step how to decide
to which journal to submit a paper, what happens to a paper after
submission, and how to work effectively with a journal throughout
the publication process Includes key advice on other communication
important to success in scientific careers, such as giving
presentations, writing proposals, and writing for a general
audience Presents updated information throughout and new material
on timely topics like copyright and presenting online
The offices of GMD-FOKUS in Berlin provided the venue for a meeting
in December 1987 which signalled the birth of the ARGOSI project.
The proposal gradually took shape over the following months, and
after merging with another project proposal in the field of
standardization of computer graphics, finally received funding from
the Esprit programme in March 1989. The project stemmed from a
recognition of the importance of computer graphics a'i an ena bling
technology in many application areas, and of the need to build
bridges between computer graphics and telecommunications. The
overall aims of the pro ject were twofold: * Advance the state of
the art in the transfer of graphical information across
international networks. * Improve quality and applicability of
standards in this area. This book records the key results of the
project and the contributions the project has made to
standardization related to the transfer of graphical information
across open networks. Contributions have included a demonstration
of a prototype appli cation - a road transport information system
running over public international of a new data networks - shown at
the Esprit '91 exhibition, the standardization FT AM document type
allowing structured access to graphical information (represented
according to the Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) standard) and
major contributions to a mapping of the X-Windows protocol onto an
OSI stack. The project also organized two international workshops.
the first on Graphics and Communications, and the second on
Distributed Window Systems.
This print companion to MindTap for General Chemistry presents the
narrative, figures, tables, and example problems-but no graded
problems or assessments. You will need a MindTap access code to
complete the interactive activities, exercises, and assignments.
MindTap General Chemistry: Atoms First is a new homework platform
and interactive textbook designed to help you study better. MindTap
organizes your homework and readings in short, manageable chunks so
that you read a little, then do a little. The learning path ramps
up your knowledge so that you first learn essential concepts and
skills before moving onto more advanced problems like the ones you
might get on an exam. There's also a MindTap Mobile App to keep you
connected with important reminders and on-demand study tools. It's
time to say goodbye to your textbook, and say hello to MindTap
General Chemistry!
This entertaining and highly readable book gives anyone writing in
the sciences a clear and easy-to-follow guide to the English
language. English is often regarded as one of the most difficult
languages to master. Yet while the English language has a
vocabulary of upwards of 500,000 words, it only uses nine parts of
speech, and all of these words fall into one (or more) of those
nine categories. Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and
Other Professionals, Third Edition contains many simple revelations
like this that make effective scientific writing in English easy,
even for those whose fluency is in another language. The book is
organized around a basic guide to English grammar that is
specifically tailored to the needs of scientists, science writers,
science educators, and science students. The authors explain the
goals of scientific writing, the role of style, and the various
kinds of writing in the sciences, then provide a basic guide to the
fundamentals of English and address problem areas such as
redundancies, abbreviations and acronyms, jargon, and foreign
terms. Email, online publishing, blogs, and writing for the Web are
covered as well. This book is designed to be an enlightening and
entertaining read that can then be retained as a practical
scientific writing reference guide. Includes cartoons and humorous
illustrations that help reinforce important concepts Provides a
glossary that allows readers to easily reference the meanings of
grammatical terms used in the book Incorporates a wide variety of
quotations to provide humor, make points, or reinforce key concepts
Includes an entire chapter on electronic media as well as new
material on self-editing
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