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The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition
While digital technologies have revolutionized the publishing world in the twenty-first century, one thing still remains true: The Chicago Manual of Style is the authoritative, trusted source that writers, editors, and publishers turn to for guidance on style and process. The sixteenth edition offers expanded information on producing electronic publications, including web-based content and e-books. An updated appendix on production and digital technology demystifies the process of electronic workflow and offers a primer on the use of XML markup, and a revised glossary includes a host of terms associated with electronic as well as print publishing.
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Writing Science in Plain English
“Writing Science in Plain English can teach any scientist how to write more compelling and lucid papers.”
— David S. Wilcove, Princeton University
Writing Science in Plain English shows writers from all scientific disciplines how to produce clear, concise prose by mastering just a few simple principles. The author, a biologist and an experienced teacher of scientific writing, illustrates each principle with real life examples of both good and bad writing and shows how to revise bad writing to make it clearer and more concise. She ends each chapter with practice exercises so that readers can come away with new writing skills after just one sitting.
Paper $13.00 978-0-226-02637-4 Add to cart
The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science
“Montgomery wants scientists to cast off the straitjacket of convention when they write for other scientists, or at least to ask a friend to loosen the ties.”—New Scientist
In this straightforward and accessible guide, Scott L. Montgomery offers detailed, practical advice on crafting every sort of scientific communication, from research papers and conference talks to review articles, interviews with the media, e-mail messages, and more. Montgomery focuses not on rules and warnings but instead on how skilled writers and speakers actually learn their trade-by imitating and adapting good models of expression.
Paper $20.00 978-0-226-53485-5 Add to cart
The Craft of Scientific Communication
“Writing well, according to Gross and Harmon, is less a matter of following formulas and templates than it is a creative process of strategic decision-making based on the writer’s purpose and intended audience.”
— Carol Reeves, Butler University
In this remarkable guide, Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross use their analysis of published writing to show how the best scientists communicate. Organized topically with information on the structural elements and the style of scientific communications, each chapter draws on models of past successes and failures to show students and practitioners how best to negotiate the world of print, online publication, and oral presentation. The Craft of Scientific Communication will teach science students and scientists alike how to improve the clarity, cogency, and communicative power of their words and images
Paper $20.00 978-0-226-31662-8 Add to cart
The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers
The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers helps bridge the gap between good quantitative analysis and good expository writing. Field-tested with students and professionals alike, this book shows writers how to think about numbers during the writing process. Jane E. Miller begins with twelve principles that lay the foundation for good writing about numbers. Conveyed with real-world examples, these principles help writers assess and evaluate the best strategy for representing numbers. She next discusses the fundamental tools for presenting numbers—tables, charts, examples, and analogies—and shows how to use these tools within the framework of the twelve principles to organize and write a complete paper.
Paper $20.00 978-0-226-52631-7 Add to cart
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes presents a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed to be intuitive and impossible to teach. Using actual unfinished notes as examples, the authors illustrate options for composing, reviewing, and working fieldnotes into finished texts.
Paper $19.00 978-0-226-20683-7 Add to cart
The Craft of Research, 3rd Edition
With more than 400,000 copies now in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level. It explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of readers and to respond to them appropriately; and how to create introductions and conclusions that answer that most demanding question, “So what?”
Paper $17.00 978-0-226-06566-3 Add to cart
Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers
“Editors of every stripe—DEs, line editors, copyeditors—can learn much from this fresh, readable,
and practical book.” —Copyediting
Editing is a tricky business. It requires analytical flair and creative panache, the patience of a saint and the vision of a writer. This handbook provides an approach to developmentally editing nonfiction that is logical, collaborative, humorous, and realistic. It starts with shaping the proposal, finding the hook, and building the narrative or argument, and then turns to the hard work of executing the plan and establishing a style. Developmental Editing includes detailed case studies featuring a variety of nonfiction books and authors as well as advice for both freelancers and in-house staff. With the right tools and vocabulary, editors will be better equipped to diagnose a manuscript’s flaws and transform a book into a bestseller.
Paper $22.50 978-0-226-59515-3 Add to cart
The Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science: A Toolkit for Students and Postdocs
A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
From students prepping for the GRE to postdocs developing professional contacts to faculty advisors and managers of corporate labs, scientists at every level will find The Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science an unparalleled resource. Victor A. Bloomfield and Esam E. El-Fakahany, both well-known scientists with extensive experience as teachers, mentors, and administrators, have combined their knowledge to create a guidebook that addresses all of the challenges that today’s scientists-in-training face.
Paper $20.00 978-0-226-06063-7 Add to cart
Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books, 2nd Edition
Since 2001 William Germano’s Getting It Published has helped thousands of scholars develop compelling book proposals, find the right academic publishers, evaluate contracts, navigate the review process, and, finally, emerge as published authors. But the rapidly changing world of publishing is now more competitive and confusing than ever before, especially given the increased availability of electronic resources. This second edition of Germano’s best-selling guide has arrived at just the right moment. As he writes in a new chapter, the “via electronica” now touches every aspect of writing and publishing, and Germano has thoroughly revised his book to address this new world.
Paper $19.00 978-0-226-28853-6 Add to cart