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Scientific writing (in approximate order of digestibility)
What is Concise Writing, and Why Does it Matter?,
M. Khanna, on
Grammarly.com,
2019.
How to Prepare a Manuscript Fit for Purpose for Submission and Avoid Getting
a ‘Desk-Reject,’
D. A. Volmer and C. S. Stokes,
Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom.,
2016, 30, 2573–2576.
Effective Response to Peer Review, Adam T. Woolley,
Anal. Bioanal. Chem.,
2018, 410:2863–2864.
Writing Science: What Makes Scientific Writing Hard and How to Make it Easier, K. E. Grogan, Bull. Ecol. Soc. Am., 2020, e0180. Link to Wiley
Writing a Scientific Paper: From Clutter to Clarity, G. S. Patience, D. C. Boffito, P. A. Patience, Elsevier Press, New York,
NY,
2014
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ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication, G. M. Banik, G. Baysinger, P. V. Kamat & N. J. Pienta,
2021.
Writing a Scientific Paper: I. Titles and Abstracts, P. A. Thrower,
Carbon,
2007, 45(11), 2143-2144.
Link to Elsevier
Writing a Scientific Paper: II. Introduction and References, P. A. Thrower,
Carbon,
2008, 46(2), 183-184.
Link to Elsevier
Writing a Scientific Paper: III. Experimental, P. A. Thrower,
Carbon,
2008, 46(8), 1113-1114.
Link to Elsevier
Writing a Scientific Paper: IV. Results and Discussion, P. A. Thrower,
Carbon,
2010, 48(10), 2675-2676.
Link to Elsevier
Writing a Scientific Paper: V. Language, P. A. Thrower,
Carbon,
2011, 49(15), 4957-60.
Link to Elsevier. Some of the terms are specific to nanoscience, but most
of the article is still relevant to all scientific writing.
Elements of Style for Writing Journal Articles, S. M. Griffies, W. A. Perrie,
G. Hull, Publishing Connect, Elsevier Press, New York, NY,
2013.
Elements of Style, W. Strunk, Jr., E. B. White, Turtleback; 4th edition, 1999.
Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) for scholarly outputs. Link to Elsevier
Elsevier's Authors' Update provides a wide range of short, helpful articles related to effective writing,
editing and presenting.