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For chemistry or writing in chemistry courses.
This writing guide, by a team that includes a prominent chemist, a writing specialist with extensive experience in teaching science writing, and the author of Pearson's best-selling Short Guide to Writing about Biology, 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 in college and their profession, A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry emphasizes writing as a way of examining, evaluating, and sharing ideas.
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For chemistry or writing in chemistry courses.

This writing guide, by a team that includes a prominent chemist, a writing specialist with extensive experience in teaching science writing, and the author of Pearson's best-selling Short Guide to Writing about Biology, 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 in college and their profession, A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry emphasizes writing as a way of examining, evaluating, and sharing ideas. The text teaches students 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.

Product 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.
Features + Benefits

Discusses all aspects of writing for chemists at all stages of training, including research reports, essay exams, term papers, research proposals, summaries, critiques, poster presentations, oral presentations, and letters of application for jobs and graduate programs.

Explains how chemists work, how they design studies, and how they think about the data they collect.

Provides detailed advice on working with data, presenting data, and interpreting the results of statistical analyses.

Gives detailed advice about locating useful sources of information, both in print and on the Web, and about avoiding plagiarism.

Offers extensive pedagogy in each chapter, including checklists and summaries which can easily be used by students to facilitate peer review and by instructors to generate grading rubrics.

Teaches students how to create effective oral presentations and poster presentations.

Preface

Part I: General Advice About Writing And Reading Chemistry

1. Writing: A Threshold Skill

What Do Chemists Write About And Why?

The Keys to Success

Ten Strategies for Preparing Your First Draft

Ten Strategies for Revising and Editing: Getting to Your Final Draft

Rules and Conventions: The Easy Stuff

The Essential Last Pass: Proofread

2. General Advice on Reading and Note-Taking

Why Read and What to Read

Effective Reading

Effective Note-Taking and Note-Organizing

Reading Data: Plumbing the Depths Of Figures And Tables

Reading Text: Summarize As You Go

Plagiarism and Note-Taking

Checklist for Reading and Note-Taking

3. Citing Sources and Listing References

Citing Sources

Some Guidelines for Citing Sources In Chemistry

Preparing the References Section

A Sample References Page

Checklist for Citing Sources

Checklist for Preparing the References Section

4. Revising

Why Revise?

Revising for Content

Revising for Clarity

Revising for Completeness

Checklist for Revising

5. Editing for Concision and ACS Style

Editing for Gender Neutral Language

Editing for Concision

Editing for ACS Style: Some Guidelines

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Capitalization for Chemists

Hyphens

Spelling

Chemistry Specific Conventions

Conclusion

Checklist

Part II: Guidelines for Specific Tasks

6. Keeping Laboratory Notebooks

The Role of Laboratory Instruction

The Teaching Laboratory Notebook

The Research Laboratory Notebook

Checklist for Final Draft

7. The Role of Lab Instruction

Writing Reports of Teaching Laboratory Experiments

Composition of the Report

Checklist for a Final Draft

8. Writing Summaries and Critiques

Writing the First Draft

Writing the Summary

Writing the Critique

Concluding Thoughts

Checklists tor Summaries and Critiques

9. Writing Essays and Review Papers

Writing to Learn

Why Bother?

Getting Started

Researching Your Topic

Developing a Thesis Statement

Writing the Paper

Plagiarism

Citing Sources

Creating a Title

Revising and Editing

Checklist for Writing Essays and Review Papers

The Plagiarism Challenge

The Citing Sources Challenge

10. Writing Research Reports The Nature of Scientific Research Components of a Research Report Longer Reports

Publication of Research Results

Preparing a Manuscript as Though for Publication

Checklist for a Final Draft

11. Writing Research Proposals

The Research Proposal as Persuasive Writing

What Are Reviewers Looking For?

Researching Your Topic

What Makes a Good Research Topic?

Writing the Proposal

Tightening the Logic

A Real Research Proposal

Checklist for a Final Draft

12. Answering Timed Essay Questions

Basic Principles

Applying the Principles

The Writing Component of the Graduate Record Exam

Checklist for Answering Timed Essay Questions
For chemistry or writing in chemistry courses. This writing guide, by a team that includes a prominent chemist, a writing specialist with extensive experience in teaching science writing, and the author of Pearson's best-selling Short Guide to Writing about Biology, 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 in college and their profession, A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry emphasizes writing as a way of examining, evaluating, and sharing ideas. The text teaches students 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.
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