Scientific Writing: A Complete Guide
About this ebook
Mitchell P. Jones’ Scientific Writing: A Complete Guide is an essential overview of scientific writing for theses, journal articles, conference papers and book chapters. In clear, concise and precise language, Jones lays out the basic steps for compiling a highly scoped and impactful manuscript. Comprehensive and firmly instructional, this guide features step-by-step directions, content and structure suggestions with useful examples, tips on how to set up and caption effective tables, graphs and schematics, and equation and unit formatting principles. It also introduces and contrasts each publication type, provides shortcuts for efficient referencing, titling and editing and details what to expect during the thesis examination and publishing processes.
This guide contains all content in the Scientific Writing for Beginners series including bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. theses, journal articles, conference papers and book chapters. It is intended for the intermediate reader seeking an overview of all content. Beginners are directed to the specifically formatted sub guides available for each document type.
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About the author
Mitchell P. Jones is an academic, professional engineer and chartered chemist. He obtained doctorates in chemistry and mechanical and manufacturing engineering from the University of Vienna, Austria, and The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia. Mitchell has worked at leading universities, defence and aerospace companies spanning Australia and Europe and has an expansive publication record in top materials science and biotechnology conferences and journals. His research has received international attention from news media including The New York Times, Daily Mail, CNN London, CBC, Materials Today, Der Standard, Der Spiegel and Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He also currently serves on the i-SMaRT conference advisory committee, the Environmental College Board of The Institution of Engineers Australia and is the Outreach Editor for the journal Resources, Conservation and Recycling.
