Scientific Papers Made Easy - How to Write With Clarity and Impact in the Life Sciences

This contemporary guide is packed full of expert tips and suggestions which will provide the reader with the means and motivation to write better scientific papers that are more likely to be read and have impact.

List of contents

• 1: Writing as an Essential Research Skill


• 2: Core Skills


• 3: Methods


• 4: Results


• 5: Figures


• 6: Introductions


• 7: Discussions


• 8: Abstracts


• 9: Titles


• 10: Cover Letters


• 11: Writing and Editing

About the author

Stuart West was the recipient of the Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal (June 2007), the Phillip Leverhulme Prize (October 2006), and the Chancellor's Rising Star Award, Edinburgh University (August 2006).

Lindsay Turnbull was the recipient of the University of Oxford Excellence in Teaching Award in 2019.

Summary

This contemporary guide is packed full of expert tips and suggestions which will provide the reader with the means and motivation to write better scientific papers that are more likely to be read and have impact.

Additional text

The positive tone of this book succeeds in encouraging clear and objective communication without aiming to eradicate the human idiosyncrasies that make reading scientific papers enjoyable as well as practical. So I recommend it to potential authors, and must try to adopt more of its advice for myself.

Product details

• Authors: Lindsay Turnbull, Lindsay (Professor of Plant Ecology Turnbull, Stuart West, Stuart (Proessor of Evolutionary Biology West, West Stuart
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2023
• EAN: 9780192862792
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286279-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Biology, life sciences, Writing & editing guides, Writing and editing guides