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A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology Karin Knisely

A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology By Karin Knisely

A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology by Karin Knisely


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The newest edition of Knisely's Student Handbook for Writing in Biology is the helping hand your students are looking for, offering the support they need to write within the conventions of biology.

A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology Summary

A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology by Karin Knisely

The newest edition of Knisely's Student Handbook for Writing in Biology is the helping hand your students are looking for, offering the support they need to write within the conventions of biology. Topics range from reading technical literature and writing scientific papers, to preparing lab reports and giving oral presentations of scientific findings. Students get practical advice from MS Office appendices, tutorial videos, and various checklists. Examples and resources throughout the text show not just what to do, but how to do it.

The newest edition mirrors the ways students use online resources and social media platforms for research, making sure the information is both credible and relevant. A new statistics chapter covers the application of descriptive statistics to actual datasets and selected tests of significance.
The newest edition of Knisely's Student Handbook for Writing in Biology is the helping hand your students are looking for, offering the support they need to write within the conventions of biology. Topics range from reading technical literature and writing scientific papers, to preparing lab reports and giving oral presentations of scientific findings. Students get practical advice from MS Office appendices, tutorial videos, and various checklists. Examples and resources throughout the text show not just what to do, but how to do it.

The newest edition mirrors the ways students use online resources and social media platforms for research, making sure the information is both credible and relevant. A new statistics chapter covers the application of descriptive statistics to actual datasets and selected tests of significance.
The newest edition of Knisely's Student Handbook for Writing in Biology is the helping hand your students are looking for, offering the support they need to write within the conventions of biology. Topics range from reading technical literature and writing scientific papers, to preparing lab reports and giving oral presentations of scientific findings. Students get practical advice from MS Office appendices, tutorial videos, and various checklists. Examples and resources throughout the text show not just what to do, but how to do it.

The newest edition mirrors the ways students use online resources and social media platforms for research, making sure the information is both credible and relevant. A new statistics chapter covers the application of descriptive statistics to actual datasets and selected tests of significance.

About Karin Knisely

Karin Knisely is Lab Director of Core Course Biology at Bucknell University. She earned a B.S. in Biology from Bucknell (where she was a three-sport athlete and is now enshrined in the Athletics Hall of Fame) and an M.S. in Zoology from the University of New Hampshire. She then completed a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) fellowship at the University of Konstanz. Bilingual in German and English, she translated You cannot imagine what it is like in America, an authoritative book by Friedemann Fegert about emigration from the Bavarian Forest to the United States from 1841 to 1931 (2021 Lichtland).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Scientific Method.- Chapter 2 Finding Information About Topics in Science.- Chapter 3 Reading and Writing About Science.- Chapter 4 Documenting Sources.- Chapter 5 Step-by-Step Instructions for Preparing a Scientific Paper.- Chapter 6 Data Analysis Using Statistics.- Chapter 7 Revision.- Chapter 8 Sample Student Laboratory Reports.- Chapter 9 Poster Presentations.- Chapter 10 Oral Presentations.- Appendix 1 Word Processing in MS Word 2019.- Appendix 2 Making Graphs in MS Excel 2019.- Appendix 3 Preparing Oral Presentations with MS PowerPoint 2019.

Additional information

NGR9781319308322
9781319308322
1319308325
A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology by Karin Knisely
New
Paperback
Macmillan Learning
2021-02-19
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