Scientific Thinking and Scientific Writing

It’s About the Science: Students Writing and Thinking About Data In a Scientific Writing Course

Plagiarism in scientific writing.

Although it is not possible with certainty to know the exact date of the first scientific report, with scientific and technological contribution the ancient civilizations like China, Greece, and Babylon can be attributed to the earliest scientific reporting. 1 During the era of ancient Greek, these scientific reporting and communications took a different turn, shifting from oral to written comm...

Writing a scientific paper.

In 1970 Vernon Booth was awarded the first Prize in a competition organized by Koch-Light Laboratories Ltd, Coinbrook, Bucks., U.K.. His article 'Writing a Scientific Paper' was printed first in 1971, and 10000 copies were distributed freely by Koch-Light. A Second Edition was prepared by Dr Booth and distributed privately. Copies of the First and Second Editions are no longer in print but requ...

Writing Scientific Papers Generalities

4 points) Summarizes report in one paragraph. Write this section last. Boil down your intro, methods, results, and discussion sections to a sentence or two each and you’ll have a great abstract. (1 pt)-succinctly describes why research was conducted in the first place (1 pt)-succinctly describes methods (relative to all the possible methods in ecology did you do a field experiment? Did you rean...

Scientific Thinking and its Development

Kevin Dunbar, McGill University (now at Dartmouth College) Scientific thinking refers to the thought processes that are used in science, including the cognitive processes involved in theory generation, experiment design, hypothesis testing, data interpretation, and scientific discovery. Many of these aspects of scientific thinking involve cognitive processes that have been investigated in their...