Style and ethics of communication in science and engineering
Scientists and engineers seek to discover and disseminate knowledge so that it can be used to improve the human condition. Style and Ethics of Communication in Science and Engineering serves as a valuable aid in this pursuit--it can be used as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on tech...
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| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
c2009.
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on engineering (Online) ;
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Table of Contents:
- Motivation
- Writing well
- Overall approach
- Outline
- Write freely
- Edit critically
- Read out loud
- Have a colleague proofread
- Removing redundancies and unnecessary words
- Active voice, first person, and different tenses
- Voice
- Person
- Tense
- Infinitives and modifiers
- Infinitive
- Modifiers
- Additional issues of word choice
- Punctuation, abbreviations, and foreign languages
- Exploit methods of punctuation
- Abbreviations
- Foreign languages
- Footnotes, quotations, and proper citation
- Footnotes
- Quotations
- Proper citation
- Vocabulary
- Closure
- Scientific publications
- Basic content
- Cover page and letter to editor
- Results
- Methods (or materials and methods)
- Discussion and conclusion
- Introduction
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Appendices
- References
- Figures and tables
- Publishing an archival journal paper
- Origin
- Composition and authorship
- Submission and review
- Revision
- Typesetting, galley proofs, and proofreader marks
- Copyright, permissions, and page charges
- Thesis or dissertation
- Technical reports
- Proposals and grant applications
- Introduction
- Types of grants
- The review process
- The NIH R01 grant
- Specific aims
- Background and significance
- Preliminary results
- Research plan
- References
- The preproposal
- Summary
- Appendix
- Oral communication
- Effective styles
- The 15-minute presentation
- Summary
- Authorship
- The Slutsky case
- Basic conventions
- Order of authors
- Submission agreement
- Publication impact
- Common problems
- Expectations
- Gift, guest, and ghost authorship
- Financial support
- Quid pro quo
- Students and technicians
- Current standards and emerging ideas
- International committee of medical journal editors standards
- Author notification
- Specifying contributions
- Quantifying contributions
- Our approach
- Authorship criteria
- Predraft group meeting
- Final review and approval
- Default position for abstracts
- Recordkeeping
- The Slutsky case revisited
- Why keep records
- Medical records
- Industry research records
- Academic research records
- Electronic data
- Date-stamps, time-stamps, and backup systems
- Images
- Software development
- Fraud: fabrication and falsification
- Retaining or discarding data
- Image manipulation
- Statistical and image forensics
- Ownership of ideas, data, and publications
- Data and resource sharing
- Research data
- Model organisms
- Other research products
- Copyright
- Online publishing
- Public access to NIH-funded journal articles
- Patents
- Patents and publicly funded research
- Patents and publication
- Plagiarism
- Attribution within a research group
- Citation
- Peer review
- Archival journal articles
- Grants.