Scientific Writing Easy When You Know How

Univ. of Sydney, Australia. Comprehensive handbook provides a step-by-step process for becoming published in the biomedical field. Topics include scientific writing, getting started, finishing the paper, punctuation, support systems, writing style, and grammar. Presents highlights in two-tone tables and boxes. Softcover.

Jennifer Peat is Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and Senior Hospital Statistician, Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW Australia.

Elizabeth Elliott is a professor in the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, The Children's Hospital at Westmead.

Introduction	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Foreword	p. xiii
Scientific writing	p. 1
Reasons to publish	p. 1
Rewards for being a good writer	p. 3
Making it happen	p. 5
Achieving creativity	p. 7
Thought, structure and style	p. 8
The thrill of acceptance	p. 9
Getting started	p. 12
Forming a plan	p. 12
Choosing a journal	p. 17
Uniform requirements	p. 21
Instructions to authors	p. 23
Standardised reporting guidelines	p. 24
Authorship	p. 29
Contributions	p. 41
Writing your paper	p. 48
Abstract	p. 49
Introduction	p. 51
Methods	p. 54
Results	p. 63
Discussion	p. 85
Summary guidelines	p. 89
Finishing your paper	p. 93
Choosing a title	p. 93
Title page	p. 100
References and citations	p. 101
Peer review	p. 106
Processing feedback	p. 109
Checklists and instructions to authors	p. 110
Creating a good impression	p. 112
Submitting your paper	p. 115
Archiving and documentation	p. 116
Review and editorial processes	p. 121
Peer reviewed journals	p. 121
Revise and resubmit	p. 125
Replying to reviewers' comments	p. 127
Handling rejection	p. 130
Editorial process	p. 132
Page proofs	p. 133
Copyright laws	p. 135
Releasing results to the press	p. 136
Becoming a reviewer	p. 138
Writing review comments	p. 140
Becoming an editor	p. 143
Publishing	p. 147
Duplicate publication	p. 147
Reporting results from large studies	p. 149
Policies for data sharing	p. 150
Fast tracking and early releases	p. 152
Electronic journals and eletters	p. 153
Netprints	p. 155
Citation index	p. 157
Impact factors	p. 158
Other types of documents	p. 165
Letters	p. 165
Editorials	p. 168
Narrative reviews	p. 169
Systematic reviews and Cochrane reviews	p. 172
Case reports	p. 176
Post-graduate theses	p. 178
Writing style	p. 188
Plain English	p. 188
Topic sentences	p. 189
Subjects, verbs and objects	p. 191
Eliminating fog	p. 192
Say what you mean	p. 195
Word order	p. 197
Creating flow	p. 199
Tight writing	p. 202
Chopping up snakes	p. 206
Parallel structures	p. 208
Style matters	p. 210
Grammar	p. 214
Nouns	p. 215
Adjectives	p. 219
Verbs	p. 221
Adverbs	p. 229
Pronouns and determiners	p. 231
Conjunctions and prepositions	p. 235
Phrases	p. 239
Clauses	p. 240
Which and that	p. 243
Grammar matters	p. 244
Word choice	p. 246
Label consistently	p. 246
Participants are people	p. 248
Word choice	p. 250
Avoid emotive words	p. 251
Because	p. 253
Levels and concentrations	p. 255
Untying the negatives	p. 255
Abbreviations	p. 257
Spelling	p. 258
Words matter	p. 259
Punctuation	p. 261
Full stops and ellipses	p. 261
Colons and semicolons	p. 262
Commas	p. 263
Apostrophes	p. 266
Parentheses and square brackets	p. 267
Slashes, dashes and hyphens	p. 270
Punctuation matters	p. 271
Support systems	p. 273
Searching the internet	p. 273
Writers' groups	p. 274
Avoiding writer's block	p. 281
Mentoring	p. 282
Index	p. 288
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