A Short Guide to Writing About Biology - Softcover

Pechenik, Jan A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0673521281 ISBN 13: 9780673521286

Publisher: Longman Higher Education, 1992

Synopsis

Emphasizing writing as a means to examining, evaluating, sharing, and refining ideas, A Short Guide to Writing about Biology helps students get more out of their biology courses and prepares them for work beyond the classroom. More than a "writing guide," this book teaches students to think as biologists and to then express that thinking clearly and concisely through their writing and speaking. With comprehensive coverage on how to read and evaluate articles, how to interpret and describe the results of statistical tests, how to maintain laboratory and field notebooks, and how to communicate information concisely and convincingly to professional and general audiences, this book is a "must have" for any biology student. This edition also provides considerable emphasis on the Internet and work with computers in Biology.

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About the Author

Jan A. Pechenik is Professor of Biology at Tufts University, where he has been teaching and doing research since 1978. He obtained his B.A. in Zoology from Duke University and his Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. To date he has published over 50 papers on the development and metamorphosis of marine invertebrate animals, including snails, blue mussels, crabs, barnacles, polychaetes, bryozoans, and parasitic flatworms.

Professor Pechenik has also published a successful textbook on invertebrate biology, currently in its 3rd edition, and chairs the Division of Invertebrate Zoology within the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology (formerly the American Society of Zoologists). Committed to teaching as well as research, his highly praised book on this subject, A Short Guide to Writing About Biology, has just appeared in a fourth edition.

Synopsis

This brief guide teaches biology students how to read more thoughtfully and think more carefully about what they read and observe, and then translate those skills into effective writing. Students are shown how writing can be used to examine and clarify their thinking, resulting in clearer, more well-thought papers, proposals and reports. Emphasis is placed on critical reading and note-taking, with increased coverage of computers for writing and research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman Higher Education
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0673521281
• ISBN 13: 9780673521286
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 242