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From research to manuscript: a guide to scientific writing

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Main Author:	Katz, Michael Jay 1950- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Dordrecht] Springer 2009
Edition:	2. ed.
Subjects:	Naturwissenschaften Wissenschaftliches Manuskript Forschungsergebnis
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhaltsverzeichnis
Physical Description:	XIV, 205 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:	9781402094668

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adam_text	IMAGE 1 MICHAEL JAY KATZ FROM RESEARCH TO MANUSCRIPT A GUIDE TO SCIENTIFIC WRITING SPRINGER IMAGE 2 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS V PART I TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES 1 THE STANDARDS OF A SCIENTIFIC PAPER 3 1. A STEREOTYPED FORMAT 3 2. PRECISE LANGUAGE 3 3. A SINGLE, CLEAR DIRECTION 4 4. REVIEWED AND MADE AVAILABLE TO OTHERS 4 2 SCIENTIFIC WORDS, SENTENCES, AND PARAGRAPHS 5 1. SCIENTIFIC TEXT NEEDS EXACTNESS AND CLARITY 5 1.1. WRITE WITH PRECISION 5 1.2. SCIENTIFIC USE OF TENSES 7 2. THE PARAGRAPH IS THE UNIT OF EXPOSITION 8 2.1. EACH PARAGRAPH MAKES ONE POINT 8 2.2. INSIDE A SCIENTIFIC PARAGRAPH 9 2.3. CONNECT SUCCEEDING PARAGRAPHS 10 3 WRITING SCIENTIFIC TEXT 13 1. BEGIN TO WRITE WHILE YOU EXPERIMENT 13 2. START BROADLY, WORK ON THE DETAILS LATER 13 3. A MAGNIFIED VIEW OF THE WRITING PROCESS 14 3.1. USE THE SKELETAL OUTLINES 14 3.2. PILE IN IDEAS 15 3.3. COLLECT INFORMATION FROM OUTSIDE RESOURCES 16 3.4. FORM ROUGH SENTENCES 17 3.5. ARRANGE THE SENTENCES INTO THEMES 18 3.6. MAKE YOUR THEMED LISTS INTO ROUGH PARAGRAPHS 19 3.7. TAKE A BREAK AND CLEAR YOUR MIND 21 3.8. PUT TOGETHER ONE PARAGRAPH FOR EACH TOPIC 21 3.9. SHAPE A WORKING DRAFT 22 3.10. SMOOTH TRANSITIONS 26 VII IMAGE 3 V L LL 3.11. POLISHING 27 3.12. WHEN TO STOP WRITING 33 4. ADVICE TO SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES 34 4 PRESENTING NUMERICAL DATA 35 1. TABLES 37 1.1. ORGANIZE YOUR DATA 37 1.2. INSIDE TABLES USE NUMERICAL ORDER 40 1.3. EXAMPLES 42 2. STATISTICS 43 2.1. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS 43 2.2. INFERENTIAL STATISTICS AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING 50 2.3. USE STATISTICS THOUGHTFULLY 57 5 CONSTRUCTING SCIENTIFIC FIGURES 59 1. BASIC GUIDELINES 59 2. FIGURE LEGENDS 62 3. NUMERICAL FIGURES 62 3.1. GRAPHS 62 3.2. RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLES 66 3.3. AESTHETICS OF NUMERICAL FIGURES 69 4. PREPARATION FOR SUBMISSION TO A JOURNAL 70 5. SCIENTIFIC PATTERNS SHOULD BE REPRODUCIBLE 70 PART II WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER 1 WRITING DURING RESEARCH 75 1. KEEP A COMPUTERIZED NOTEBOOK 76 1.1. THE DIARY-RECORD YOUR WORK NOTES 76 1.2. REFERENCES-ARCHIVE YOUR SOURCES 77 2. BEGIN A DRAFT EARLY 78 2 COMPOSING THE SECTIONS OF A RESEARCH PAPER 79 1. MATERIALS AND METHODS 80 1.1. RECIPES 80 1.2. WRITING YOUR MATERIALS AND METHODS SECTION 82 1.3. AN EXAMPLE OF A COMPLETE MATERIALS AND METHODS SECTION 92 1.4. COMMIT TO A FEW KEY VARIABLES 93 2. APPENDIX 95 3. RESULTS 97 3.1. CARVING OUT YOUR RESULTS FROM YOUR OBSERVATIONS 98 3.2. EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS 101 3.3. WRITING THE RESULTS 105 IMAGE 4 CONTENTS IX 3.4. AN EXAMPLE OF A COMPLETE RESULTS SECTION 117 4. DISCUSSION 118 4.1. RECAP YOUR RESULTS 118 4.2. ARCHIVE YOUR RESULTS 121 4.3. TRY TO MAKE A PROPOSAL 125 4.4. AN EXAMPLE OF A COMPLETE DISCUSSION SECTION 132 5. CONCLUSION 132 6. LIMITATIONS OF THIS STUDY 136 7. INTRODUCTION 137 7.1. DEFINE THE GAP 138 7.2. BEGIN WITH THE KNOWN 138 7.3. TAKE A DIRECT PATH TO THE UNKNOWN 139 7.4. SUMMARIZE YOUR PLAN-OF-ATTACK 139 7.5. A SAMPLER OF INTRODUCTIONS 140 7.6. AN EXAMPLE OF A COMPLETE INTRODUCTION SECTION 148 8. ABSTRACT 149 8.1. THE SIMPLE ABSTRACT 149 8.2. THE ABSTRACT WITH SUBSECTIONS 152 9. KEY WORDS AND THE LIST OF NONSTANDARD ABBREVIATIONS 154 9.1. KEYWORDS 154 9.2. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NONSTANDARD ABBREVIATIONS 155 10. TITLE 155 11. FOOTNOTES 157 12. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 158 13. REFERENCES 159 13.1. CITE ORIGINAL SOURCES 160 13.2. DON T CITE INCOMPLETE SOURCES 160 13.3. FIND THE APPROPRIATE CITATION FORMATS 161 13.4. USE BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE 162 13.5. CHECK YOUR TEXT CITATIONS AND YOUR REFERENCE LIST 162 PART III PREPARING A MANUSCRIPT FOR SUBMISSION 1 CHOOSING A JOURNAL 165 1. MAKE A LIST OF CANDIDATE JOURNALS 165 1.1. CONSIDER OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING 166 1.2. RANK THE JOURNALS BY QUALITY 167 1.3. AIM FOR THE BEST AND TOUGHEST JOURNAL 167 2. STYLE RULES 168 2 A FINAL REWRITE 171 1. GET A FRIENDLY CRITIQUE 172 2. READ THE PAPER BACKWARDS 172 3. RECHECK THE SPELLING 174 IMAGE 5 X CONTENTS 3 PREPARING AND SUBMITTING THE MANUSCRIPT 175 1. PRINT AND PAGE FORMAT 175 2. THE MANUSCRIPT PACKET 175 2.1. PAGE ONE 175 2.2. PAGE TWO 176 2.3. PAGE THREE 177 2.4. PAGE FOUR 177 2.5. THE LAST PAGES 177 3. THE INTRODUCTORY LETTER 177 4 RESPONDING TO EDITORS AND REFEREES 179 1. HOMEWORK 179 2. THE COMMENT-BY-COMMENT LETTER 180 3. STAY CALM 181 APPENDIX A WORDS THAT ARE OFTEN MISUSED 183 APPENDIX * SIMPLIFYING WORDY, REDUNDANT, AND AWKWARD PHRASES.... 189 APPENDIX * STANDARD SCIENTIFIC ABBREVIATIONS 191 BASIC RULES 191 APPENDIX D TYPICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC FORMATS 195 1. FORMATS FOR TEXT CITATIONS 195 2. BIBLIOGRAPHIC FORMATS FOR THE REFERENCES SECTION 195 I. ARTICLES 195 II. BOOKS 196 III. OTHER 197 APPENDIX E ADDITIONAL READING 199 APPENDIX F SOFTWARE SUGGESTIONS 201 INDEX 203
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