Publisher's description: This innovative nursing textbook provides a clear guide to writing a winning dissertation. It contains advice and guidance in overcoming many of the difficulties students often face in this process. Written by experts in the field, each chapter provides …
This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register,…
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Provides advice on different types of technical writing, forming and working with a team, online writing and research, and tips for specific writing tasks such as filing a patent and writing a grant proposal.
"Written for engineering professionals and students, this book discusses the importance of documentation and process development in large and small organizations. It offers practical guidelines and templates that can be adapted to a wide variety of organizations to assist the re…
"The written report is central to the practice of psychiatry in legal settings. It is required of mental health professionals acting as expert witnesses in criminal cases, civil litigation situations, child custody proceedings and risk assessments. This book provides a theoretic…
Learning how to write clearly and concisely is an integral part of furthering your research career; however, doing so is not always easy. In this fully updated and revised edition, Dr. Silyn-Roberts explains in plain English the steps to writing abstracts, theses, journal papers…
Takes readers step by step through the process of preparing for a presentation. Shoots Veis breaks the main topics - speech planning, design, and delivery - into component pieces and explains the range of choices, emphasizing the importance of understanding your audience. Throug…
Jeanette Daly's single volume resource provides specific guidelines for writers who want to contribute to nursing journals. The book features arranged entries for 101 nursing journals by subject area and purpose and focus of each journal.
"This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science," New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. "Things aren't perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more disco…