From Research to Manuscript: A Guide to Scientific Writing
From Research to Manuscript, written in simple, straightforward language, explains how to understand and summarize a research project. It is a writing guide that goes beyond grammar and bibliographic formats, by demonstrating in detail how to compose the sections of a scientific paper. This book takes you from the data on your desk and leads you through the drafts and rewrites needed to build a thorough, clear science article. At each step, the book describes not only what to do but why and how. It discusses why each section of a science paper requires its particular form of information, and it shows how to put your data and your arguments into that form. Importantly, this writing manual recognizes that experiments in different disciplines need different presentations, and it is illustrated with examples from well-written papers on a wide variety of scientific subjects.
As a textbook or as an individual tutorial, From Research to Manuscript belongs in the library of every serious science writer and editor.
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Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition
This book is an absolute necessity for instructors at all levels, as
well as an indispensable reference for researchers. Introducing NLP,
computational linguistics, and speech recognition comprehensively in a
single book is an ambitious enterprise. The authors have managed it
admirably, paying careful attention to traditional foundations,
relating recent developments and trends to those foundations, and tying
it all together with insight and humor. Remarkable.(Amazon.com).
CliffsQuickReview: Principles of Management When it comes to pinpointing the stuff you
really need to know, nobody does it better than CliffsNotes. This fast,
effective tutorial helps you master core management concepts -- from
the systems approach and decision making to organizational design and
human resource planning -- and get the best possible grade. At
CliffsNotes, we're dedicated to helping you do your best, no matter how
challenging the subject. Our authors are veteran teachers and talented
writers who know how to cut to the chase -- and zero in on the
essential information you need to succeed. (Amazon.Co.Uk).
Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction by Mark Knight and Emma Mason Recent scholarship in nineteenth-century
literary studies consistently recognizes the profound importance of
religion, even as it marginalizes the topic. There are few, if any,
challenging yet manageable introductions to religion and literature in
the long-nineteenth century, a factor that serves to fuel scholars'
neglect of theological issues. This book aims to show how religion,
specifically Christianity, is integral to the literature and culture of
this period. It provides close readings of popular texts and integrates
these with accessible explanations of complex religious ideas. Written
by two scholars who have published widely on religion and literature,
the book offers a detailed grounding in the main religious movements of
the period 1750-1914. The dominant traditions of High Anglicanism,
Tractarianism, Evangelicalism and Roman Catholicism are contextualized
by preceding chapters addressing dissenting culture (primarily
Presbyterianism, Methodism, Unitarianism and Quakerism), and the
question of secularization is considered in the light of the diversity
and capacity for renewal within the Christian faith. Throughout the
book the authors untangle theological and church debates in a manner
that highlights the privileged relationship between religion and
literature in the period. The book also gives readers a language to
approach and articulate their own 'religious' readings of texts, texts
that are often concerned with slippery subjects such as the divine, the
non-material and the nature of religious experience. Refusing to shut
down religious debate by offering only narrow or fixed definitions of
Christian traditions, the book also questions the demarcation of sacred
material from secular, as well as connecting the vitality of religion
in the period to a broader literary culture. (Amazon.com)
Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought by R. J. Hankinson R. J. Hankinson traces the history of
ancient Greek thinking about causation and explanation, from its
earliest beginnings around 600 BC through to the middle of the first
millennium of the Christian era. The ancient Greeks were the first
Western civilization to subject the ideas of cause and explanation to
rigorous and detailed analysis, and to attempt to construct theories
about them on the basis of logic and experience. Hankinson examines the
ways in which they dealt with questions about how and why things happen
as and when they do, about the basic constitution and structure of
things, about function and purpose, laws of nature, chance,
coincidence, and responsibility. Such diverse questions are unified by
the fact that they are all demands for an account of the world that
will render it amenable to prediction and control; they are therefore
at the root of both philosophical and scientific enquiry. Hankinson
draws on a wide range of original sources, in philosophy, natural
sciences, medicine, history, and the law, in order to create a synoptic
picture of the growth and development of these central concepts in the
Graeco-Roman world. (Amazon.com).
