Scientific Writing: Tools & Techniques
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 156. LSI page count does not change
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 156
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Career success in the sciences is built on excellent written communication whether within papers, proposals, or laboratory reports. However, where does the process begin? Moreover, what exactly is required? Additionally, what tools are needed to accomplish scientific writing goals? It starts here! This book was designed to help students receive a solid foundation in the scientific writing process through the following:
• Breaking down laboratory report writing into digestible processes where they can review, revise, and produce an optimal paper
• Providing tools such as the IMRAD template, organizational patterns of writing with their affiliated transitional words as well as citation resources, to make laboratory report writing easier and more efficient
• Promoting writing techniques and strategies using brainstorming rubrics to motivate students to write successful laboratory reports
In brief, Scientific Writing: Tools and Techniques is an ideal resource for students enrolled in undergraduate science courses with a laboratory component. Specifically, this textbook is designed as a 3 in 1 resource, where students can acquire a good foundation and lifelong learning transferable skills in scientific writing either for industry or graduate school. Finally, this book is a perfect companion for undergraduate students because it serves as the following:
1. A Tool Kit
2. A Guidebook
3. A Lab Notebook
TOOLS
Preface
Chapter 1: IMRAD: A Framework for Scientific Writing
Chapter 2: Organizational Patterns in Scientific Writing
TECHNIQUES:
Chapter 3: Writing the Laboratory Report
Lab 1
Lab 2
Lab 3
Lab 4
Lab 5
Lab 6
Lab 7
Lab 8
Lab 9
Lab 10
Lab 11
Lab 12
APPENDICES
Metric Conversion Tables
Concentration Expression Terms
American Psychological Association (APA) Referencing and Citation Rubric for Peer Reviewed Articles
Sample Lab Report
Dr. Cheryl Rock is an Associate Professor of Food Science at California State University – Long Beach (CSULB), with concentrations and interests in Ethnomedicine, Food Metaphysics and Rum Science. She is also a native of Barbados and completed her Associates’ degree in Biology and Chemistry at the Barbados Community College (BCC). She acquired her Bachelors’ as well as Masters’ degrees at the Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical University. Subsequently after, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida. A fun fact about Dr. Rock is that, since the year 2017, she has facilitated a short-term study abroad course in her home country Barbados each year, where CSULB students has joined her to engage in some of the cultural activities while studying the science of rum. This is a unique course because it’s the first and only one that brings students to the Caribbean to study Rum from a cultural, diasporic and scientific perspective. The course is entitled “Distilling and Brewing Technology in Barbados” where students learn earn about Rum Science and its intersection with ancestral African and modern Barbadian culture and spiritual traditions through collaborations with Dr. Elizabeth Metzger. Last, her other research experiences and interests include disease mitigation through plant-based approaches in native foods. For example, her works includes studying the Ethnomedical Properties of Mauby Bark, a popular plant material used to make a beverage in Barbados and the wider Caribbean. Last, she has characterized several compounds in Mauby Bark that are of importance and have been published in the Journal of Food Research.