Communicate Science Papers, Presentations, and Posters Effectively

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

Communicate Science Papers, Presentations, and Posters Effectively is a guidebook on science writing and communication that professors, students, and professionals in the STEM fields can use in a practical way. This book advocates a clear and concise writing and presenting style, enabling users to concentrate on content.

The text is useful to both native and non-native English speakers. The book includes chapters on the publishing industry (discussing bibliometrics, h-indexes, and citations), plagiarism, and how to report data properly. It also offers practical guidance for writing equations and provides the reader with extensive practice material consisting of both exercises and solutions.

Covers how to accurately and clearly exhibit results, ideas, and conclusions
Identifies phrases common in scientific literature that should never be used
Discusses the theory of presentation, including "before and after� examples highlighting best practices
Provides concrete, step-by-step examples on how to make camera ready graphs and tables

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-08-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:284
Förlag:Elsevier Science
ISBN:9780128015001

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Dr. Gregory S. Patience is a Canada Research Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. Before joining academia, he held various research positions in industry related to catalyst manufacture, process design, technical marketing and management with Du Pont de Nemours & Co. in the USA, Spain, and Switzerland. Language fascinated him, so after his M.Sc. at the University of Calgary he moved to Montreal and became proficient in French while completing his PhD at Polytechnique. Since then he mastered Spanish, and then studied Italian while he lived in Geneva. He has consulted for major corporations - Total, Haldor-Topsøe, Arkema - and several start-ups that have resulted in a dozen patents. Along with more than 100 journal articles and book chapters, Professor Patience has presented his work at numerous conferences and developed courses on fluidization, reactor design, process design, and textiles manufacturing

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"…offers a straight-forward, comprehensive, and prescriptive approach to teaching about scientific communication to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate students, professors, and practitioners." --Technical Communication