Lebrun website: http://www.scientific-writing.com.
Websites on Visuals
Bates University “How to Write A Paper in Scientific Journal Style and Format”
http://abacus.bates.edu/~-ganderso/biology/resources/writing/HTWtablefigs.html
Naturally, the Grand Master of visualisation is Edward Tufte.
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard
Readability resources
Gopen and Swan
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/the-science-of-scientific-writing
Websites on Grammar
Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style”.
http://www.bartleby.com/141/
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jms/doc/elos.pdf
“Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization: A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors”, written by Mary K. McCaskill from the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton Virginia (USA). 108-page grammar book.
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/publish/sp7084.pdf
Pennsylvania State University many online exercises
http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu
Purdue university Online Writing Lab (OWL)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
University of Wisconsin handbook containing an extensive grammar section.
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/GramPunct.html
Article usage
Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/esl.html
NASA “The Use and Non-Use of Articles”
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/540/01/
Punctuation
NASA grammar section 3.1 to 3.16.1
“Commas with Nonessential Elements” and “Proofreading for Commas”.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_commaproof.html
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_commaess.html
Websites on the Evolution of Scientific Writing
“The Death of The Scientific Paper”.
http://papers.gersteinlab.org/e-print/paperdeath/preprint.pdf
“The Scientific Article: From Galileo’s New Science to the Human Genome”.
http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701730/
“The Say of Things”
http://www.roaldhoffmann.com/pn/modules/Downloads/docs/The_Say _of_Things.pdf
Tichy “Advice To Scientist-Writers: Beware Old ‘Fallacies'”
http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/8862/
McCabe “a mission to sex up scientese”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2004/feb/05/research.science
Persuasion
Choi “General publication strategies”, “Writing strategies”, “Preparation and submission”, “Rejection and revision” and “being a good referee”.
http://roie.org/how.htm
“How to Write a Frequently Cited Article” by van der Vorst.
http://www.austms.org.au/Publ/Gazette/2004/May04/vorst.pdf
Reasons for rejection. “How to Read A Paper: Getting Your Bearings (deciding what the paper is about)”.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7102/243
Croft “Scientific Writing: Discriminating Good from Bad”
http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/ll/20/01.html
Logical fallacies Richardson “Logical Fallacies in Scientific Writing”
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~cristian/i2rcs/i2rcs_docs/logic.htm
Scientific Papers
Bates College “The Structure, Format, Content, and Style of a Journal-Style Scientific Paper”
http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/resources/writing/HTWsections.html
http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/ resources/writing/HTWtoc.html
Deel recommends to write the abstract in the past tense —
“Lab Report Guide: How to Write in the Format of a Scientific Paper”.
http://serc.carleton.edu/fHes/sp/carl_ltc/quantitative_writing/examples/lab_report_guid.pdf
“Scientific Writing Booklet” Tischler
http://www.biochem.arizona.edu/marc/Sd-Writing.pdf
http://www.biochem.arizona.edu/marc/Sd-Writing.pdf
http://www.jacweb.org/Archived_volumes/pdf_files/JAC2_Rodman.pdf
Jones ppt “How to write a great research paper”.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/writing-a-paper-slides.pdf
Railsback “Some Thoughts on Writing a Scientific Paper or Thesis” and “Some Comments on Writing and Editing”.
http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/writingl.html
http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/writing2.html
Council of Science Editors (CSE) “CSE’s White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications”
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org
Daily postings at
http://www.the-scientist.com
Websites on the Writing Process
Bates College “A Strategy for Writing Up Research Results”
http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/resources/writing/HTWstrategy.html
Peer review form: after your draft is complete, and when you have made sure your logic is sound and you have tried to make your paper as concise as possible without loosing clarity, show your article to a reader not familiar with your research. This peer-review form helps a reader check out a paper methodically before sending it to the journal.
http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/resources/peerreview.html
Purdue University OWL “General Writing Concerns (Planning/Writing/Revising/ Genres)”.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/
“Guide to Academic Writing” by Bak
http://docs.exdat.com/docs/index-134479.html
Books on Scientific Writing
A PHD is Not Enough by Peter J. Feibelman
http://www.amazon.com/Ph-D-Not-Enough-Survival-Science/dp/0201626632
Scientific Style and Format by the Council of Science Editors (CSE)
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/publications/style.cfm
“Dos and Don’t of Technical Writing” Morgan: the most common errors authors make when writing formulas.
http://research.vtu.ac.in/resources/techl-writing-advice.pdf
“Citing and referencing guide: Harvard style” Imperial College in London.
How to write a pape using the “Name Year” format.
http://www.amazon.com/Successful-Scientific-Writing-Step-step/dp/0521789621
Craft of Scientific Writing by Michael Alley
http://www.amazon.com/Craft-Scientific-Writing-Michael-AUey/dp/0387947663
Writing for Computer Science by Justin Zobel
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Computer-Sdence-Justin-Zobel/dp/1852338024
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