A coursebook on scientific and professional writing : for speech-language pathology / / M.N. Hegde, PhD

• Autore: Hegde M. N (Mahabalagiri N.), <1941->
• Pubblicazione: San Diego : , : Plural Publishing, Inc., , [2024]; ©2024
• Edizione: Sixth edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 459 pages)
• Disciplina: 808/.06661
• Soggetto topico: Speech therapy - Authorship; Medical writing
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface to the Sixth Edition -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- PART A FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL WRITING -- A.1. BASIC RULES OF USAGE -- Ampersand -- A.1.1. Use the Ampersand Correctly -- Apostrophe -- A.1.2. Do Not Turn a Possessive Into a Plural -- A.1.3. Do Not Turn a Plural Into a Possessive -- A.1.4. Use the Correct Forms of Possessive Nouns -- A.1.5. Use the Possessive Forms of Pronouns Correctly -- A.1.6. Distinguish Contractions From Possessives -- Unusual Singulars and Plurals -- A.1.7. Use Unusual Singulars and Plurals Correctly -- Comma -- A.1.8. Use a Serial Comma -- A.1.9a. Do Not Use a Serial Comma When You Write Only Two Parallel Terms and Connect Them With a Conjunction -- A.1.10. Use a Comma to Separate Parenthetic Expressions That Are Not in Parentheses -- A.1.11. Place a Comma Before a Conjunction Introducing an Independent Clause -- A.1.12. Do Not Use a Comma Before a Conjunction That Is Followed by a Dependent Clause -- Dash -- A.1.13. Prefer an Em Dash to a Comma to Set Off an Abrupt Break -- Semicolon -- A.1.14. Join Independent Clauses With a Semicolon When the Clauses Are Not Joined by a Conjunction -- Agreement -- A.1.15. Follow the Rules of Agreement -- Modifiers -- A.1.16. Use Modifiers Correctly -- Pronouns -- A.1.17. Clarify the Referents of Pronouns -- A.1.18. Let the Pronoun Agree in Number With Its Antecedent -- A.1.19. Use the Proper Case of Pronoun -- Sentence Fragments -- A.1.20. Do Not Break a Single Sentence Into Two Parts -- A.1.21. Do Not Write Sentence Fragments as a Series of Declarative Statements -- A.1.22. Do Not Punctuate Appositives -- Nouns and Adjectives -- A.1.23. Use Certain Terms Only in Their Adjectival Forms -- A.1.24. Do Not Turn a Noun Into a Verb -- Participial Phrase ; A.1.25. Let a Participial Phrase at the Beginning of a Sentence Refer to the Grammatical Subject -- A.2. BASIC RULES OF COMPOSITION -- Structure of Research Papers -- A.2.1. Design a Broad Outline of Your Paper -- A.2.2. Design Headings and Subheadings of Your Paper -- Composing Paragraphs -- A.2.3. Write Paragraphs That Express Related Ideas -- A.2.4. Do Not Write Paragraphs That Are Too Long -- A.2.5. Do Not Write One-Sentence Paragraphs -- A.2.6. Begin and End Most Paragraphs With Transitionary Sentences -- Concise and Direct Writing -- A.2.7. Prefer the Shorter to the Longer Sentences -- A.2.8. Prefer the Active Voice -- A.2.9. Say What It Is, Instead of What It Is Not -- A.2.10. Avoid Too Many Qualifications -- A.2.11. Use Definite, Specific, and Concrete Language -- A.2.12. Eliminate or Replace Unnecessary Phrases -- A.2.13. Avoid Redundant Phrases -- A.2.14. Avoid Wordiness -- A.2.15. Avoid Jargon -- A.2.16. Avoid Euphemism -- A.2.17. Keep Related Words Together -- Parallelism -- A.2.18. Write in Parallel Terms -- A.2.19. Maintain Parallelism in Numbered or Bulleted Lists -- Misplaced or Dangling Modifiers -- A.2.20. Avoid Dangling Modifiers -- A.2.21. Avoid Misplaced Modifiers -- Shifts Within and Between Sentences -- A.2.22. Avoid Shifts Within and Between Sentences -- Quotations -- A.2.23. Make Quotations Count -- A.2.24. Do Not Overuse Quotations -- A.2.25. Do Not Include Islands of Quotations -- A.2.26. Do Not Begin a Sentence With a Quotation -- A.2.27. Use Quotation and Punctuation Marks Correctly -- A.2.28. Do Not Misuse Quotation Marks -- A.2.29. Give References for All Direct Quotations -- A.2.30. Reproduce Quotations Exactly -- A.2.31. Integrate Quotations of Fewer Than 40 Words With the Text -- A.2.32. Arrange Quotations as a Block When They Have 40 Words or More -- A.2.33. Show Correctly the Changes in Quotations ; A.2.34. Quote Correctly the Sources on the Internet -- Precision in the Use of Scientific Terms -- A.2.35. Use the Terms Ending in -ology Correctly -- A.2.36. Use Certain Terms Ending in -ics Correctly -- Use of Fresh Language -- A.2.37. Avoid Clichés -- A.2.37. Avoid Clichés -- A.3. COMMONLY MISUSED WORDS AND PHRASES -- A.3.1. Accept and Except -- A.3.2. Affect and Effect -- A.3.3. Alternate and Alternative -- A.3.4. Allusion and Illusion -- A.3.5. And/Or -- A.3.6. Baseline and Baserate -- A.3.7. Effect and Impact -- A.3.8. Elicit and Evoke -- A.3.9. Elicit and Illicit -- A.3.10. Farther and Further -- A.3.11. Focus and Analysis -- A.3.12. Incidence and Prevalence -- A.3.13. Inter- and Intra- -- A.3.14. Latter and Later -- A.3.15. Proof and Support -- A.3.16. Secondly and Thirdly -- A.3.17. Since and Because -- A.3.18. There and Their -- PART B SCIENTIFIC WRITING -- B.1. INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC WRITING -- B.2. TERMS FOR WRITING WITHOUT BIAS -- B.2.1. Do Not Overuse the Pronouns He and He or She -- B.2.2. Use the Appropriate Terms of Gender Identities -- B.2.3. Use the Appropriate Terms of Sexual Orientations -- B.2.4. Avoid Prejudicial Reference to Disabilities -- B.2.5. Avoid Prejudicial Reference to Ethnic or Racial Identity -- B.2.6. Avoid Prejudicial Reference to Age -- B.2.7. Avoid Prejudicial Comparisons of Study Groups -- B.3. FORMAT OF SCIENTIFIC WRITING -- Margins -- B.3.1. Leave Correct Margins -- Title Page -- B.3.2. Type Correctly the Title Page of a Paper for Publication -- B.3.3. Type Correctly the Title Page of a Class (Term) Paper -- Running Head -- B.3.4. Type the Manuscript Running Head Correctly -- Abstract -- B.3.5. Write an Abstract on the Second Page -- Beginning of Text -- B.3.6. Begin the Text With an Untitled Introductory Section on Page Three -- Heading Levels -- B.3.7. Use the Headings Within the Text Consistently ; Fonts and Font Size -- B.3.8. Use Acceptable Fonts and Size -- B.3.9. Use Bold Font Correctly -- Page Numbers -- B.3.10. Number the Pages Correctly -- B.3.11. Reprint the Corrected Pages -- Line Spacing and Line Length -- B.3.12. Use Appropriate Line Spacing -- B.3.13. Align the Text to the Left Margin -- B.3.14. Correct the Spelling Errors -- B.4. ELEMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC STYLE -- Capitalization -- B.4.1. Capitalize the First Words -- B.4.2. Capitalize the First and the Major Words -- B.4.3. Capitalize the Words Correctly in Headings -- B.4.4. Capitalize Proper Nouns and Trade Names -- B.4.5. Capitalize the Chapters and Sections the Reader Is Referred To -- B.4.6. Capitalize Nouns That Are Followed by a Number or Letter -- B.4.7. Capitalize Both Words in Otherwise Capitalized Hyphenated Compound -- B.4.8. Do Not Capitalize the Second Word of a Hyphenated Compound in Reference Lists -- Italicization -- B.4.9. Use Italics Correctly Within the Body of Text -- B.4.10. Use Reverse Italics Correctly -- B.4.11. Use Italics Correctly in the Reference List -- Hyphenation -- B.4.12. Use the Hyphen Correctly -- B.4.13. Do Not Overuse or Misuse the Hyphen -- Indentation -- B.4.14. Use Correct Indentation -- Space After Punctuation -- B.4.15. Give Correct Space or No Space After Punctuation -- Abbreviations -- B.4.16. Write Out Abbreviations the First Time You Use the Term, and Enclose the Abbreviations in Parentheses -- B.4.17. Do Not Start a Sentence With a Lowercase Abbreviation -- B.4.18. Use Latin Abbreviations Only in Parenthetical Constructions -- B.4.18. Use Latin Abbreviations Only in Parenthetical Constructions -- B.4.19. Add the Lowercase Plural Morpheme s to Plural Abbreviations Without an Apostrophe -- B.4.20. With Abbreviations, Use the Period Correctly -- B.4.21. Abbreviate Units of Measurement When a Number Is Specified ; Numbers in Words or Numerals -- B.4.22. Write Out Units of Measurement When a Number Is Not Specified -- B.4.23. Use Roman Numerals Only When It Is an Established Practice -- B.4.24. Use Arabic Numerals for Numbers 10 and Above -- B.4.25. Use Numerals for Numbers Below 10 in Specified Contexts -- B.4.26. Write Out in Words Numbers Below 10 in Specified Contexts -- B.4.27. Write Out in Words Any Number That Begins a Sentence -- B.4.28. Combine Words and Numerals in Specified Contexts -- Reference Citations Within the Text -- B.4.29. Cite the Author's Last Name and Year or Years of Publication in the Text -- B.4.30. Cite Both Names in the Text When a Work Has Two Authors -- B.4.31. Cite Works With Three or More Authors With Only the First Author -- B.4.32. Distinguish Works of Multiple Authors Published in the Same Year -- B.4.33. Join Multiple Author Names With the Conjunction and or the Ampersand . -- B.4.34. Distinguish the Different First Authors With the Same Surname -- B.4.35. Cite Multiple Works of the Same Author in a Temporally Ascending Order -- B.4.36. Attach Alphabetical Suffixes to the Same Author's Multiple Publications in the Same Year -- B.4.37. Within Parentheses, Arrange the Last Names of Multiple Authors in Alphabetical Order -- B.4.38. Cite Secondary Sources Sparingly and Correctly -- B.4.39. Cite Correctly the Works With No Author or an Anonymous Author -- B.4.40. Cite Correctly the Year of Publication in Parenthetical Text -- B.4.41. Cite Correctly the Specific Parts of a Source -- Reference List -- B.4.42. General Guidelines on Creating a Reference List -- B.4.43. Begin the Reference List on a New Page With a Centered Heading -- B.4.44. In the Reference List, Arrange Authors in Alphabetical Order -- B.4.45. Arrange Multiple Works of the Same Single Author From the Earliest to the Latest Year ; B.4.46. Alphabetize the Titles of Several Works of the Same Author Published in the Same Year.
• Sommario/riassunto: A Coursebook on Scientific and Professional Writing for Speech-Language Pathology, Sixth Edition is a unique interactive resource to help students develop the strong writing skills necessary for a successful clinical or academic career in speech-language pathology. The book not only describes the principles of good writing, but also contains numerous opportunities to practice writing skills replete with exemplars. The Coursebook is ideal for dedicated courses on scientific and/or professional writing, and can also be used in courses on assessment, research methods, and clinical methods and practicum.
• Titolo autorizzato: A coursebook on scientific and professional writing
• ISBN: 9781635504026; 9781635504019
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910838206003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II