Style and ethics of communication in science and engineering /
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Author / Creator: | Humphrey, Jay D. (Jay Dowell), 1959- |
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Imprint: | San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2009. |
Description: | 1 electronic text (xii, 139 p. : ill.) : digital file. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Synthesis lectures on engineering, 1939-523X ; # 9 Synthesis lectures on engineering (Online) ; # 9. |
Subject: | Technical writing. Communication of technical information. Scientists -- Professional ethics. Engineers -- Professional ethics. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8512667 |
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.