Short Guide to Writing About Chemistry, A (Paperback)

Holly Davis

ISBN 10: 0205550606 / ISBN 13: 9780205550609

Editore: Pearson Education (US), New Jersey, 2010

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Paperback. For chemistry or writing in chemistry courses. This writing guide, by a team that includes a prominent chemist, a writing specialist with extensive experience in teaching science writing, and the author of Pearsons best-selling Short Guide to Writing about Biology, teaches students to think as chemists and to express ideas clearly and concisely through their writing. Providing students with the tools they'll need to be successful writers in college and their profession, A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry emphasizes writing as a way of examining, evaluating, and sharing ideas. The text teaches students how to read critically, study, evaluate and report data, and how to communicate information clearly and logically. Students are also given detailed advice on locating, evaluating, and citing useful sources within the discipline; maintaining effective laboratory notebooks and writing laboratory reports; writing effective research proposals and reports; and communicating information to both professional and general audiences. This writing guide, by the author of Pearson's best-selling "Short Guide to Writing about Biology "along with two well-known chemists, teaches students to think as chemists and to express ideas clearly and concisely through their writing. Providing students with the tools they'll need to be successful writers, "A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry" emphasizes writing as a way of examining, evaluating, and sharing ideas. The book teaches readers how to read critically, study, evaluate and report data, and how to communicate information clearly and logically. Students are also given detailed advice on locating, evaluating, and citing useful sources within the discipline; maintaining effective laboratory notebooks and writing laboratory reports; writing effective research proposals and reports; and communicating information to both professional and general audiences. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Short Guide to Writing About Chemistry, A (Paperback)
• Editore: Pearson Education (US), New Jersey
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0205550606
• ISBN 13: 9780205550609
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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This writing guide, by the author of Pearson’s best-selling Short Guide to Writing about Biology along with two well-known chemists, teaches students to think as chemists and to express ideas clearly and concisely through their writing.

              

Providing students with the tools they'll need to be successful writers, A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry emphasizes writing as a way of examining, evaluating, and sharing ideas. The book teaches readers how to read critically, study, evaluate and report data, and how to communicate information clearly and logically.

 

Students are also given detailed advice on locating, evaluating, and citing useful sources within the discipline; maintaining effective laboratory notebooks and writing laboratory reports; writing effective research proposals and reports; and communicating information to both professional and general audiences.