TitleResearch [electronic resource] : How to Plan, Speak and Write About It / edited by Clifford Hawkins, Marco Sorgi
ImprintLondon : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 1985
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3519-7
Descript XI, 184 p. online resource

SUMMARY

Training for research is only available in a few places in the world, so that usually the researcher has to learn to master every step by himself. This entails planning the research, finding out how to obtain funds, searching the literature, analysing the data statistically, preparing visual material and slides, speaking about it in public, writing it up for journals and so on. Books on various aspects of this subject are readily obtainยญ able but this is an attempt to deal with all the steps that are necessary from the start to the finish, and chapters have been planned sequentially with this in mind. Although most of the authors are doctors of medicine, it should help those in any area of science where the undertaking and publishing of research is important. Marco Sorgi conceived the idea of the book and, during an appointment in the University of Birmingham, invited Clifford Hawkins to help in achieving its delivery. May the effort be found to be worthwhile


CONTENT

1 Research: Why Do It? -- 2 Planning and Protocol -- 3 Searching the Literature -- 4 Speaking at Meetings -- 5 What the Critical Reader Looks for in an Original Article: A Guide for Writers -- 6 Illustrating Talks and Articles -- 7 A Guide to Statistical Methods -- 8 Publication -- Appendix A Suggestions for Those Intending to Present an MD Thesis -- Appendix B How Best to Use a Dictating Machine -- Appendix C Examples of Needless Words that Cause Verbosity -- Appendix D American and British Usage in Spelling -- Appendix E Abbreviations of Journal Titles -- Appendix F Guide-lines for Putting Up Poster Displays


SUBJECT

  1. Medicine
  2. Chemistry
  3. Biomathematics
  4. Physics
  5. Statistics
  6. Engineering
  7. Medicine & Public Health
  8. Medicine/Public Health
  9. general
  10. Mathematical and Computational Biology
  11. Statistics for Life Sciences
  12. Medicine
  13. Health Sciences
  14. Chemistry/Food Science
  15. general
  16. Physics
  17. general
  18. Engineering
  19. general