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<p><p>Whether you are a graduate student or a senior scientist, your reputation rests on the ability to communicate your ideas and data. In this straightforward and accessible guide, Scott L. Montgomery offers detailed, practical advice on crafting every sort of scientific communication, from research papers and conference talks to review articles, interviews with the media, e-mail messages, and more. Montgomery avoids the common pitfalls of other guides by focusing not on rules and warnings but instead on how skilled writers and speakers actually learn their trade-by imitating and adapting good models of expression. Moving step-by-step through samples from a wide variety of scientific disciplines, he shows precisely how to choose and employ such models, where and how to revise different texts, how to use visuals to enhance your presentation of ideas, why writing is really a form of experimentation, and more.<p>He also traces the evolution of scientific expression over time, providing a context crucial for understanding the nature of technical communication today. Other chapters take up the topics of writing creatively in science; how to design and use graphics; and how to talk to
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Scott L. Montgomery
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226535142
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Technology
- Rating
- 4.05 / 5 (32 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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