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! J. Beat et al. (2002): Scientific Writing - Easy when you know how. In PDF, BMJ Publishing Group, London.

Floyd Bloom: Human Reviewers: The Achilles Heel of Scientific Journals in a Digital Era. Presented at INABIS '98 - 5th Internet World Congress on Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University, Canada.

Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman: Common Errors in English. A site to assist you in avoiding common errors in your writing.
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Darcy J.M. Clark, JOM (The Member Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society): Developing, Integrating, and Sharing Web-Based Resources for Materials Education. This article discusses the development and integration of web-based tools and demonstrates how these tools (including QuickTime, Java, Javascript, and virtual reality modeling language) can be used in an educational setting. Might be also useful for Palaeobotanists.

Richard Crang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Andrey Vassilyev, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (McGraw-Hill Higher Education): Plant Anatomy, The "student view", How to Write a Paper. Some useful hints.

Bruno Granier et al. (2008): A micropalaeontological fraud that affected the JAES. In PDF.

Dave Hone´s Archosaur Musings: How to write a scientific conference abstract.

Houghton Mifflin Company, Bartleby.com: The American Heritage Book of English Usage. A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. Science Terms: Distinctions, Restrictions, and Confusions. A discussion of familiar words that have specific or specialized meanings in science and scientific terms that are easy to confuse.

S. Kinnebrock and H. Bilandzic (2023): Stories about Villains, Mad Scientists and Failure. In PDF, start on PDF page 303. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science. In: K. Zachmann et al. (eds): Evidence Contestation: Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies.

Jere H. Lipps, Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley: How to get a Reputation in Paleontology! A Twelve-Step Program. Palaeontologia Electronica, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2002; or Palaeontologia Electronica, Volume 5, Issue 2, (Coquina Press), 2003. Go to "Into Focus": HOW TO GET A REPUTATION IN PALEONTOLOGY II: A BETTER TWELVE-STEP PROGRAM (also available in PDF).

Christof Kuhn, Vienna: Etymology of mineral and rock names.
Website outdated. The link is to a version archived by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

! Projekt Deutscher Wortschatz, Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon. This database might be used as a special type of German dictionary and dictionary of accompanied expressions. It might also be used as thesaurus, even for English, French and Netherlands. You can also navigate from here, or go to: Dictionary German - English, and "Fachlexika". Excellent!

! The LOGOS Dictionary. This freely-accessible database currently has 7.580.560 entries.

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.: On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research. This report guides readers to several issues of scientific integrity and ethics including values in science.

National Association of Science Writers (NASW). A forum to foster the dissemination of accurate information regarding science through all media normally devoted to informing the public.

naturalSCIENCE: Quotations. A short dictionary of scientific quotations.
A version archived by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

! Nature.com: How to construct a Nature summary paragraph (DOC file).

Peter Ommundsen, Selkirk College, Canada: Pronunciation of Biological Latin. Including taxonomic names of plants and animals. See also here (PDF file).

C. Park (2003): In other (people´s) words: Plagiarism by university students - literature and lessons. In PDF, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.

Phrase Finder. This online program uses the language´s pattern-matching features to build a list of related words from whatever you input. That list is then matched against a database of phrases. Words aren´t only matched by simple sub-string text matching, the progam has an understanding of irregular word forms and of context.

PLOS (The Public Library of Science), San Francisco, California, USA. A nonprofit organization to accelerate progress in science.
! How to Choose the Journal That’s Right for Your Study.
! How to Write a Great Title.
! How to Write an Abstract.
! How to Write Your Methods.
! How to Write Discussions and Conclusions.
! How to Edit Your Work.
! 10 Tips for Getting Started as a Peer Reviewer.
! How to Read a Manuscript as a Peer Reviewer
! How to Write a Peer Review.

Roget´s Thesaurus. Search for related English words and phrases. Excellent!

Hartmut Steuber, Jörg Pasch and Peter F. Meurer, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf: LiteRat classic. A downloadable reference administration program for scientists. It´s freeware! In German.

Volker Schardin: Extensions/Suffixes (in German). Index to the most used extensions.
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B.A. Solagberu (2004): How to present a paper at a scientific meeting (in PDF).

William Strunk, Jr., Project Bartleby: Go to: Elements of Style. This site provides the principal requirements of plain English style.

Twomoons Production: Fremdwörterbuch. In German.

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