How to write & publish a scientific paper - Softcover

Day, Robert A.

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9780897744560: How to write & publish a scientific paper

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ISBN 10: 089774456X ISBN 13: 9780897744560

Publisher: Oryx Press, 1988

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This book includes all the information and advice needed to write and publish a scientific paper. This expanded edition contains new information on electronic manuscript preparation and the use of computers to create effective tabulation.

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Book Description:

The growth of the Internet, online journals, new software packages, computer networks - these and other facets of science writing can be found in the new edition of Robert A. Day's How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper. The long-awaited fourth edition of this classic volume is filled with facts, advice, and guidance, all written in R. A. Day's breezy, readable style. For thousands of scientists, writers, and students, How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper is the 'how-to' book.

About the Author:

ROBERT A. DAY is professor of English at the University of Delaware, Newark, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in scientific and technical writing. For 19 years, he directed the publishing program of the American Society for Microbiology and served as managing editor of the Journal of Bacteriology plus eight other journals published by ASM. He was also the director of the ISI Press and vice president of the Institute for Scientific Information. Day is past-president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and past-chairman of the Council of Biology Editors. He frequently gives seminars and workshops on scientific writing and has written extensively on all phases of scientific writing, editing, and publishing. Among his publications are How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper and Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and other Professionals, both published by Oryx Press.

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