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Technical Writing
By
Saeed Akhtar Durrani
Technical Writing aims at providing a good basic grounding to
those young scientists and Engineers who have not had an extensive experience of technical writing or publication. The book starts with certain general statements regarding the essence and basic principles of scientific writing viz. clear, unbiased and truthful communication of observed facts or theoretical formulations. The book covers the following topics: Basic rules of scientific writing
Logic and truth tables, Report of a technical meeting; minutes of a technical session/lecture, Some grammatical and linguistic observations, writing up an experiment/short project, M.Phil dissertation PhD thesis, writing a research paper for publication some assessment criteria for research publications And many more subheadings. Therefore It is hoped that these lectures would inculcate in those who follow this course a certain degree of insight into the purpose, the technology, and skills of good, lucid and effective scientific writing.
Abridged Contents: Introduction, Types of technical writing, Writing up an experiment/short project, M.Phil dissertation, Phd thesis, Writing a research paper for publication, Some assessment criteria for research publications, Review article, Monograph, Proposal for funding, Concluding remarks and further reading
Target Readership: Graduate & Postgraduate students of all discipline
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