Eloquent Science won an EXCEL Award

From Sarah Jane Shangraw, AMS Books Managing Editor: Eloquent Science has won an EXCEL award from Association Media & Publishing. Each year the Association, formerly known as the Society of National Association Publishers, bestows EXCEL awards in several categories of media and publication, including two book categories: technical and non-technical. Within each category they award […]

A course to improve scientific and communication skills

Here is the abstract of the talk that I will be giving at the AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta about the 14-week university course that I designed based on the book Eloquent Science. To improve writing skills, a student needs to write more and write more often. Thus, I tried to minimize the lecture material […]

Errata: Figure 19.1

Please replace Fig. 19.1 on p. 227 with the correct version below. I had inadvertently used an earlier version of the figure that Dave Whiteman supplied, and this error slipped past both his and my readings of the page proofs.

Appendix B: Commonly Misused Scientific Words and Expressions

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Chapter 8: Constructing Effective Paragraphs

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Excerpt: Chapter 3: Writing an Effective Title

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