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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• What’s New in the Second Edition?
• Preface
• A Note on the Exercises
• Part I. What Writing Is
• 1. On Bacon, Hobbes, and Newton, and the Selfishness of Writing Well
• 2. Genius, Craft, and What This Book Is About
• Part II. Writing Behavior
• 3. Writing and Reading
• 4. Managing Your Writing Behavior
• 5. Getting Started
• 6. Momentum
• Part III. Content and Structure
• 7. Finding and Telling Your Story
• 8. The Canonical Structure of the Scientific Paper
• 9. Front Matter and Abstract
• 10. The Introduction Section
• 11. The Methods Section
• 12. The Results Section
• 13. The Discussion Section
• 14. Back Matter
• 15. Citations
• 16. Beyond the IMRaD Canon
• Part IV. Style
• 17. Paragraphs
• 18. Sentences
• 19. Words
• 20. Brevity
• Part V. Revision
• 21. Self-Revision
• 22. “Friendly” Review
• 23. Formal Review
• 24. Revision and the “Response to Reviews”
• Part VI. Some Loose Threads
• 25. Journals and Preprints
• 26. The Diversity of Writing Forms
• 27. Managing Coauthorships
• 28. Three Kinds of Reading: Reference, Survey, and Deep
• 29. Writing for Speakers of English as an Additional Language
• Part VII. Final Thoughts
• 30. On Whimsy, Jokes, and Beauty: Can Scientific Writing Be Enjoyed?
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Permanent URLs
• Index