A short guide to writing about chemistry
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A short guide to writing about chemistry
(The short guide series)
Pearson education, c2010
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This writing guide, by the author of Pearson's best-selling Short Guide to Writing about Biology along with two well-known chemists, teaches students to think as chemists and to express ideas clearly and concisely through their writing.
Providing students with the tools they'll need to be successful writers, A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry emphasizes writing as a way of examining, evaluating, and sharing ideas. The book teaches readers how to read critically, study, evaluate and report data, and how to communicate information clearly and logically.
Students are also given detailed advice on locating, evaluating, and citing useful sources within the discipline; maintaining effective laboratory notebooks and writing laboratory reports; writing effective research proposals and reports; and communicating information to both professional and general audiences.
Table of Contents
Part I: General Advice About Writing And Reading Chemistry
1. Writing: A Threshold Skill
2. General Advice on Reading and Note-Taking
3. Citing Sources and Listing References
4. Revising
5. Editing for Concision and ACS Style
Part II: Guidelines for Specific Tasks
6. Keeping Laboratory Notebooks
7. The Role of Lab Instruction
8. Writing Summaries and Critiques
9. Writing Essays and Review Papers
10. Writing Research Reports The Nature of Scientific Research Components of a Research Report
11. Writing Research Proposals
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