Writing for Earth Scientists

Professor Stephen Donovan 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2017년 03월 14일 출간

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The time has come. You are an Earth scientist. You’ve spent weeks, months, years working on this project now is the time to pull it together for publication. You might be writing an undergraduate or graduate thesis, a research paper for a leading journal, a note for the newsletter of the local amateur scientific society, a book review or an abstract for a specialist geological conference. How do you make the transition from promising unpublished researcher to established academic author? Of course, the phrase ‘academic publishing’ covers a multitude of sins; monographs, research papers, book reviews, conference abstracts or whatever each requires a different approach. You have to decide what it is you are going to write and where to publish it. There are co-authors, supervisors of your degree, peer reviewers and editors to deal with on the way. But the only way to write like an academic is to write like an academic. . . where do you start? You could do much worse than start here. There are many books on how to write and be published aimed at research students and other aspiring academics. Many of these are readable, comprehensive and provide good advice. This book is composed of numerous short chapters on this subject, all directly relevant to one or more aspects of academic publishing and aimed particularly at the Earth scientists in the broadest sense. Geologists will be encouraged to use the book as much as a reference as a reader, ‘dipping in’ to the chapters that contain relevant tips, hints and comments to enable them to improve the paper that they are currently writing. The book is intended to be informative, readable and, above all, of practical application for all readers. In summary, the volume will be a readable compilation investigating many facets of academic publishing relevant to the Earth sciences. It will be of particular interest to postgraduate students, postdocs and new academics

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Foreword 1 Introduction 2 Publication Diversity 3 Theses 4 Books and Monographs 5 Invited Chapters for Books 6 Peer-Reviewed Research Papers 7 Short Notes 8 Discussions and Replies to Published Papers 9 Book Reviews and Book Reviewing 10 Conference Abstracts 11 Papers for Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications 12 Field Guides 13 Title 14 Abstract 15 Key Words 16 Introduction 17 Materials and Methods/Localities and Horizons 18 Results 19 Discussion and Conclusions 20 Acknowledgements 21 References 22 Why Write? (1) 23 Line Drawings 24 Maps 25 Photographic Plates 26 Tables 27 Co-authors and Others 28 Cover Letters 29 Submission 30 Editors 31 Reviewers 32 Why Write? (2) 33 Reviews 34 Revision: Corrections and Resubmission 35 Acceptance 36 Rejection 37 Copyright 38 Open Access 39 Offprints and Pdfs 40 Reading 41 Reviewing 42 Why Write? (3) 43 Productivity 44 Space and Time 45 Writer’s Block 46 Plain English 47 The Native English Speaker 48 Why Write? (4) 49 Editing Journals 50 A Space of Your Own 51 Contracts, Agents, Publishers and Your First Book 52 How Did I Write This Book? Appendix: Book Proposal Index

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저자(글) Professor Stephen Donovan

Professor Stephen Donovan has been publishing on such diverse subjects as Caribbean geology, palaeontology, the history of science, ichnology and academic publishing for over 30 years. He loves research, writing and publishing. This book can be read from cover-to-cover, dipped into when an answer to a specific question is needed or both. The aim is to help all geologists to write improved papers both better organised and more readable - and to get them published.