Mastering Academic Writing in the Sciences [Hardcover]

This book provides a comprehensive and coherent step-by-step guide to writing in scientific academic disciplines. It is an invaluable resource for those working on a PhD thesis, research paper, dissertation, or report. Writing these documents can be a long and arduous experience for students and their supervisors, and even for experienced researchers. However, this book can hold the key to success. Mapping the steps involved in the writing process - from acquiring and organizing sources of information, to revising early drafts, to proofreading the final product - it provides clear guidance on what to write and how best to write it.

Features:

• Step-by-step approach to academic writing in scientificdisciplines
• Ideal guidance for PhD theses, papers, grant applications, reports and more
• Includes worked-out examples from real research papers and PhD theses and templates and worksheets are available online to help readers put specific tasks into practice

Chapter 1: Before You Begin

Chapter 2: The PreWriting Step

Chapter 3: The Drafting Step

Chapter 4: The Revising Step

Chapter 5: The Editing Step

Chapter 6: The Proofreading Step

Chapter 7: The Technical Stuff

Chapter 8: Worked-out Examples

Chapter 9: Section Templates

Chapter 10: Elements of English Grammar

This is really a must-have book for everyone, student or expert, planning to write an academic text in scientific disciplines on any subject and of any type and length, from a PhD thesis to a journal paper. It describes effectively all thlØ