This guide provides a framework, starting from simple statements, for writing papers for submission to peer-reviewed journals. It also describes how to address referees comments, approaches for composing other types of scientific communications, and key linguistic aspects of scientific writing.
This linguistic guide to writing a scientific paper for submission to a peer-reviewed journal also demonstrates how to address referees comments and responses. It focuses less on grammar and vocabulary than on vital elements of discourse such as tenses.
This linguistic guide to writing a scientific paper for submission to a peer-reviewed journal also demonstrates how to address referees comments and responses. It focuses less on grammar and vocabulary, and more on the vital elements of discourse such as tenses and clarity.
Chapter 1: Maximizing chances of publication
Chapter 2: Essential steps before writing a paper
Chapter 3: Drafting papers
Chapter 4: Complex studies
Chapter 5: Linguistic points
Chapter 6: Covering letters and referees objections
Chapter 7: Other kinds of written scientific communication
Chapter 8: Summary
John Blackwell has a PhD in plant physiology, and has done post-doctoral work in both the UK and Sweden. Since then, he has worked in publishing for International Media Ltd. (now part of Agra Informa), and for 15 years he has been Director of Sees-editing Ltd., a company specializing in editing papers written in English by non-native speakers. In these capacities he has written, re-written or edited more than 3,000 papers, theses, reports and texts on diverse topics on behalf of hundreds of clients in more than 30 countries.
Jan Martin has a PhD in applied ecology and was previously Director of Lifelong Learning in the Scl“ć
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