TY - BOOK AU - Cargill, Margaret AU - O'Connor, Patrick TI - Writing Scientific Research Articles : Strategy and Steps SN - 9781405186193 (pbk. : alk. paper) U1 - 808.0666 PY - 2009/// CY - Chichester, UK, Hoboken, NJ PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Scientific Writing KW - Research Publications KW - Research Writing KW - reporting N1 - Section 1 A framework for success 1 How the book is organized, and why 1.1 Getting started with writing for international publication 1.2 Publishing in the international literature 1.3 Aims of this book 1.4 How the book is structured 2 Research article structures 2.1 Conventional article structure: AIMRaD (Abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods. Results, and Discussion) and its variations 3 Referees’ criteria for evaluating manuscripts 3.1 Titles as content sign posts Section 2 When and how to write each article section 4 Results as a "story": the key driver of an article 5 Results: turning data into knowledge 5.1 Figure, table, or text? 5.2 Designing figures 5.3 Designing tables 5.4 Figur legends and table titles 6 Writing about results 6.1 Functions of results sentences 6.2 Verb tense in Results sections 7 The methods section 7.1 purpose of the Methods section 7.2 Organizing Methods sections 7.3 Use of passive and active verbs 8 The Introduction 8.1 Five stages to a compelling Introduction 8.2 Stage 1: Locating your project within an existing field of scientific research 8.3 Using references in Stages 2 and 3 8.4 Avoiding plagiarism when using others’ work 8.5 Indicating the gap or research niche 8.6 Stage 4: The statement of purpose or main activity 8.7 Suggested process for drafting an Introduction 8.8 Editing for logical flow 9 The Discussion section 9.1 Important structural issues 9.2 information elements to highlight the key messages 9.3 Negotiating the strength of claims 10 The title 10.1 Strategy 1: Provide as much relevant information as possible, but be concise 10.2 Strategy 2; Use keywords prominently 10.3 Strategy 3: Choose strategically: noun phrase, statement, or question? 10.4 Strategy 4: Avoid ambiguity in noun phrases 11 The Abstract 11.1 Why Abstracts are so important 11.2 Selecting additional keywords 11.3 Abstracts: typical information elements Section 3 Getting your manuscript published 12 Considerations when selecting a target journal 12.1 The scope and aims of the journal 12.2 The audience for the journal 12.3 Journal impact 12.4 Using indices of journal quality 12.5 Time to publication 12.6 Page charges or Open Access costs 13 Submitting a manuscript 13.1 Five practices of successful authors 13.2 Understanding the pee ocess 13.3 Understanding the ed’ 13.4 The contributor’s cov 13.5 Understanding the n e 13.6 Understanding the ( continued) 14 How to respond to editor and referees 14.1 Rules of thumb 14.2 How to deal with manuscript rejection 14.3 How to deal with "conditional acceptance" or "revise and resubmit" 15 A process for preparing a manuscript 15.1 Initial preparation steps 15.2 Editing procedures 15.3 A pre-review checklist Section 4 Developing your publication skills further 16 Skill-development strategies for groups and individuals 16.1 Journal clubs 16.2 Writing groups 16.3 Selecting feedback strategies for different purposes 16.4 Training for responding to reviewers 17 Developing discipline-specific English skills 17.1 Introduction 17.2 What kinds of English errors matter most? 17.3 Strategic (and acceptable!) language re-use; sentence templates 17.4 More about noun phrases 17.5 Concordancing: a tool for developing your discipline-specific English 17.6 Using the English articles (a/an, the) appropriately in science writing 17.7 Using which and that Section 5 Provided example articles 18 Provided example article 1: Kaiser et al. (2003) 19 Provided example article 2: Britton-Simmons and Abbott (2008) ER -