TABLE OF CONTENTS The title of a book is its special tag, its distinguishing label. The choice of words is limited only by the number of words in the English language, yet how few of them show up in titles.
ELSIE MYERS STAINTON, A Bag for Editors (1977)
Go straight to the point, rather than begin with an historical reference or resounding banality ( There is much research interest at present in the biochemistry of memory ).
BERNARD DIXON, Sciwrite (1973)
To write a reference, you must have the work you're referring to in front of you. Do not rely on your memory. Do not rely on your memory. Just in case the idea ever occurred to you, do not rely on your memory.
MARY-CLAIRE VAN LEUNEN, A Handbook for Scholars (1992)
It was said of Jordan's writings that if he had 4 things on the same footing as (a, b, c, d) they would appear as a, M ? 3, ? 2, ?? 1,2.
J. E. LITTLEWOOD, Littlewood's Miscellany [9] (1986)
May all writers learn the art (it is not easy) of preparing an abstract containing the essential information in their compositions.
KENNETH K. LANDES, A Scrutiny of the Abstract. II (1966)
We write scientific papers to communicate our ideas and discoveries. Our papers compete for the readers' attention in journals, conference proceedings and other outlets for scholarly writing. If we can produce well-organized papers that are expressed in clear,...
