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BIOL/ESCI 304 - Ecology

A guide for BIOL/ESCI 304 students researching environmental topics in the library and on the internet.

A Short Guide to Writing About Biology

Your principle style guide for this course is A Short Guide to Writing About Biology by Jan Pachenik. This book provides specific guidance for scientific writing. For example, there are specific styles for writing about statistics, summarizing results, writing figure legends, etc. You will need to follow the guidelines in this book when writing about and presenting data. This book also provides help for writing scientific papers, reports, and essays.


Print Version

The 9th edition of this book is the official edition used by this class. However, the library does not have the 9th edition; we have the 8th edition.

Three (3) copies of the print version of the 8th edition are on Course Reserves in the library.


Electronic Version

An electronic version is not available.

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