Successful Scientific Writing : A Step-By-Step Guide for Biomedical Scientists

by Janice R. Matthews, John M. Bowen (Contributor), Robert W. Matthews (Contributor) 181 pages Spiral edition (March 1996) Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0521559480 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.39 x 9.24 x 6.65 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 35,438 Avg. Customer Review: 5 stars

Review by Steve Potter spotter@gg.caltech.edu from Caltech, December 9, 1998

A Must-Get For All Scientists!

This is a funny, well-written, thorough, and authoritative book that goes through every step in the process of creating a journal article, including some topics unique to this process, like how to deal with multi-author editing, peer review, and lit searches. Lots of great advice about how to overcome writer's block. Although the book is written with biomedical science in mind, the advice on grammar, style, structure, and process management is useful to all technical writers. No scientist should be without it.