Barbara Gastel
Författare till How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
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- 7
- Medlemmar
- 428
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- #57,056
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- 3.8
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- 3
- ISBN
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I am currently composing my first self-generated scientific paper as primary author. Yay! I’m using this book (and a few others) to supplement a writing group of likeminded scientists. This book brought to mind a few insights that would improve my manuscript through a deeper understanding of the overall process. Although I regularly converse with scientific communicators, this book helped me see the entire publication journey from start to finish.
Doing good science is itself tough. So is writing well. This book teaches readers how to combine these two skills into useful products. It also has a chapter at the end about a career in scientific communications, which is generally highly compensated. Science is a team endeavor, and communicating its results with the public and with peers is itself a difficult challenge. It offers a kind of “last mile problem” like that seen with vaccine technology in public health. Writers must bring the findings to readers’ attention lest they die an unfulfilled death. The authors’ insights here help advance that noble cause.… (mer)