In addition to providing practical exercises on these topics, the book focuses on helping writers distil their research into concise take-home messages for readers, in order to convey information as clearly as possible to the target audience.

Content

• Section I. Preliminary Considerations.
• Chapter 1 The Importance of and Need for Publishing.
• Chapter 2 Steps in Manuscript Preparation and Getting Started.
• Chapter 3 Ethical Issues in Publishing.
• Chapter 4 Choosing Your Coauthors.
• Chapter 5 Choosing Your Journal.
• Chapter 6 Principles and Characteristics of Good Scientific Writing.
• Section II. Development of the Manuscript.
• Chapter 7 Developing the Take-home Messages and a Provisional Title.
• Chapter 8 Organizing and Outlining Your Manuscript.
• Chapter 9 Results I: Overview.
• Chapter 10 Results II: Presentation.
• Chapter 11 Results III: Options for Presenting Results.
• Chapter 12 Results IV: Guidelines for Preparing Written Text of Results.
• Chapter 13 Revising and Editing.
• Chapter 14 References.
• Chapter 15 Materials and Methods.
• Chapter 16 Introduction: Rationale, Review of Literature, and Statements of Objectives.
• Chapter 17 Discussion.
• Chapter 18 Abstract.
• Chapter 19 Title, By-line, Keywords, and Authorship Footnote Items.
• Chapter 20 Polishing Your Manuscript with Good Word Usage: Choice of Words, Misspelled Words, and Misused Words.
• Section III. Review, Submission, and Postsubmission Issues.
• Chapter 21 In-house Manuscript Review Process.
• Chapter 22 Cover Letter and Submission Form Preparation.
• Chapter 23 Final Checklist and Initial Manuscript Submission.
• Chapter 24 The Peer-Review Process of Your Initial Submission.
• Chapter 25 Response-letter Preparation and Manuscript Resubmission.
• Chapter 26 Proofs, Proofreading, and the Final Steps in the Publication Process.
• Appendices.
• Index/Indices.