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Writing Books for Download

8/22/2020

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I found the PDF copies of these books online. It seems like the authors have made them available. I hope to share them with you here. Download a copy as a reference and refer to them as and when you need them!
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 How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
by Barbara Gastel and Robert A. Day

You usually can tell by edition of a book its popularity. This book is into its eighth edition. This book a valuable resource to refer for snippets of advise while preparing an academic work. It is user-friendly, non-threatening with comics and a sense of humor infused in its text, and easy to read and refer to. It is  broken up into relevant topics. For example, how to write each part of a journal article - the introduction, methods, results, analysis and discussion (what is known as IMRAD). More than that it covers every aspect of being a graduate student and academic. For example there's a chapter on How to Write for the Public (Chapter 25) and and How to Write a Thesis (Chapter 26).
how_to_write_and_publish_a_scientific_paper.pdf
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Writing for Social Scientists
by Howard S. Becker

This is more a theoretical book than a "how to" book and because of that it gives you a different view of academic writing. It makes you think more about the how and why, instead of just teaching you how to do it.

Howie is a very well-published and established social scientists and he takes time to explain the craft of writing in this book from a social scientists perspective.

I once selected this book as an assignment to teach writing to my graduate class. Here are my slides:
https://www.slideshare.net/ShuyiChua1/writing-for-social-scientists
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The Writing Workshop
by Barbara Sarnecka

This is a newly published book (2020) that I have yet to read but it seems like the author encourages writing groups. So this might appeal to you if you are thinking of forming a community of writers to support one another in their endeavor!

Check out the author's website:
https://sites.google.com/uci.edu/sarneckalab/book
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Writers Resource Kit
by The Book Council, Singapore

This is a book on writing. It is from a Singapore context. It is not an academic writing book but as I have said in my book - any book that teaches you to write is good for teaching you academic writing. It is very easy and enjoyable to read.
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My Facebook Page on Writing

8/8/2020

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Some people find writing very laborious. But for me, the writing of words come easily because I match my fingers to my thoughts. This means that whatever I am thinking comes straight out into the screen as I am typing it.

So writing can flow. It is both an act of the mind and the body. It is a dance and connection of the mind and body.

I have many such tips that I pick up over the years that make writing easy to me that I wish to share with more people. So I set up a facebook page called "The Graduate Student as Writer" after the book I wrote.

This page is an inventory of writing tips and advice, and also information for graduate students and academics. While there are differences between academic writing and day-to-day writing as I am doing right now, at the heart of it - the skills, knowledge, and understanding of writing are the same.

They involve a process of converting thoughts and ideas into words. So I believe the advice I give are transferable across fields, across disciplines, across careers, and across people.

Join me to learn more about writing at my Facebook Page!
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What Three Months of Freediving in Útila Taught Me

8/8/2020

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After I returned home from Honduras, I begin writing a two articles on my experiences in Útila. The first one was on my experience freediving and the second one that I have not yet completed was more of a travel writing style article on the island.

I have completed the first one on freediving: What Three Months of Freediving in Útila Taught Me

In this article, I share how I learned to deal with my expectations and adjusted them, how I learned that having fun was the best way to learn, and also my experience with exhale diving, which is taking less than a full breath when you dive.

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