Mastering Academic Writing in the Sciences A Step-by-Step Guide

This book provides a comprehensive and coherent step-by-step guide to writing in scientific academic disciplines. It is an invaluable resource for those working on a PhD thesis, research paper, dissertation, or report. Writing these documents can be a long and arduous experience for students and their supervisors, and even for experienced researchers. However, this book can hold the key to success. Mapping the steps involved in the writing process - from acquiring and organizing sources of information, to revising early drafts, to proofreading the final product - it provides clear guidance on what to write and how best to write it.

Features:

• Step-by-step approach to academic writing in scientific disciplines
• Ideal guidance for PhD theses, papers, grant applications, reports and more
• Includes worked-out examples from real research papers and PhD theses and templates and worksheets are available online to help readers put specific tasks into practice

Online resources to accompany the book can be found here: https://academiclife.coachesconsole.com/downloads.html

1. Before You Begin. 2. The PreWriting Step. 3. The Drafting Step. 4. The Revising Step. 5. The Editing Step 6. The Proofreading Step 7. The Technical Stuff 8. Worked-out Examples 9. Section Templates 10.Elements of English Grammar

Marialuisa Aliotta is Professor of Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research interests focus on the nuclear reactions in stars that produce the energy that makes them shine and contribute to the creation of all elements apart from primordial hydrogen and helium. To date, she has published over 80 refereed papers and offers highly popular workshops on academic writing at various Scottish Universities. She is also a keen mentor to PhD students and early career academics. For more information on her work, please visit www.academiclife.coachesconsole.com.