Overview
- Framed around common errors, including real-world examples and solutions
- Provides support for both writers and mentors
- Specifically targeted to early-career authors, especially those for whom English is a second language
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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About this book
Writing manuscripts is central to the advance of scientific knowledge. For an early career aspiring scientist, writing first author manuscripts is an opportunity to develop critical skills and to credential their expertise. Writing manuscripts, however, is difficult, doubly so for scientists who use English as a second language. Many science students intentionally avoid a writing-intensive curriculum. Careful, thorough reviews of draft manuscripts are difficult to secure, and experienced scientific supervisors face more demands on their time than they have time available. Weak draft manuscripts discourage supervising scientists investing the time to coach revisions. It is easier for experienced scientists to ignore the request, or to simply rewrite the article. Early career scientists are motivated to address these barriers but specific advice is difficult to find, and much of this advice is behind a pay wall.
This essential, open access text presents writing lessons organized as common errors, providing students and early-career researchers with an efficient way to learn, and mentors with a quick-reference guide to reviewing. Error descriptions include specific examples drawn from real-world experiences of other early-career writers, and suggestions for how to successfully address and avoid these in the future. Versions of this book have been used by Stanford University, UC Davis, Johns Hopkins, and numerous international institutions and organizations for over a decade.
This essential, open access text presents writing lessons organized as common errors, providing students and early-career researchers with an efficient way to learn, and mentors with a quick-reference guide to reviewing. Error descriptions include specific examples drawn from real-world experiences of other early-career writers, and suggestions for how to successfully address and avoid these in the future. Versions of this book have been used by Stanford University, UC Davis, Johns Hopkins, and numerous international institutions and organizations for over a decade.
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Keywords
- Scientific writing
- Peer review
- Science manuscript writing
- ESL
- Writing for non-English speakers
- troubleshooting
- Journal article
- Review
- mentoring
- scientific review
- publishing
- scientific communication
- scientific writing
- common errors
- early career scientist
- creating presentations
- publication ethics
- Open Access
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Most Common Errors
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Stephen Luby, Professor of Medicine, Director of Research at Center of Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University
Dorothy Southern, Independent Scientific Writing Advisor
Dorothy Southern, Independent Scientific Writing Advisor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Pathway to Publishing: A Guide to Quantitative Writing in the Health Sciences
Authors: Stephen Luby, Dorothy L. Southern
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98175-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98174-7Published: 01 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98177-8Published: 02 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98175-4Published: 30 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 186
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Biomedicine, general, Sociology, general, Science and Technology Studies, Media and Communication, Writing Skills