Reporting Research A Biologist's Guide to Articles, Talks and Posters

About this book

Want to learn how to present your research successfully? This practical guide for students and postdoctoral scholars offers a unique step-by-step approach to help you avoid the worst, yet most common, mistakes in biology communication. Covering irritants such as sins of ambiguity, circumlocution, inconsistency, vagueness and verbosity, misuse of words and quantitative matters, it also provides guidance to design your next piece of work effectively. Learn how to write scientific articles and get them published, prepare posters and talks that will capture your audience and develop a critical attitude towards your own work as well as that of your colleagues. With numerous practical examples, comparisons among disciplines, valuable tips and real-life anecdotes, this must-read guide will be a valuable resource to both new graduate students and their supervisors.

Contents

Preface

Part I. Basics:
1. Writing a scientific article and getting it published
2. Speaking about your work
3. Making and displaying a scientific poster
4. Scientific authorship

Part II. Improving:
5. Style in writing
6. Frequently misused words and technical terms
7. Quantitative matters
8. Managing error
9. Data interrelations
10. Tables and figures: the evidence
11. Citing and referencing
12. Bibliography and references

Index

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Biography

R. S. Clymo is Professor Emeritus at, and Honorary Fellow of, Queen Mary, University of London. His distinguished career spans four decades and includes experience as researcher, teacher, reviewer and editor of scientific journals. He has authored or co-authored numerous papers and journal articles, as well as a manual of water analysis. He is an Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society, Honorary Doctor of the University of Lund, and Bronze Medallist of the University of Helsinki.