Writing is Like Forecasting
July 30, 2010 Filed under Excerpts
This section is published in the June 2010 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 91, p. 791.
Recommended Reading
Previously, I provided three items of essential reading. Here are other books that I highly recommend for improving your scientific communication skills. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING ON WRITING Cook (1986): Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing delivers a thorough accounting of the editing process. The book deals mainly with sentence-level revisions and contains … read more
Appendix B: Commonly Misused Scientific Words and Expressions
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Chapter 8: Constructing Effective Paragraphs
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Excerpt: Three Items of Essential Reading
This is an excerpt from the For Further Reading section at the end of the book.
Excerpt: Chapter 3: Writing an Effective Title
This is an excerpt from Chapter 3: Writing an Effective Title.