Efficient Scientific Writing

Meet deadlines with less sweat and submit better work. 

Writing about your research can be a wonderful experience, but there will be times when it’s hard—especially when you’re writing your first few papers. Efficient Scientific Writing gives you simple-to-use tools for writing a text that works. It helps you avoid wasting time and effort due to inefficient writing, and to develop habits for reliably producing text when you need to. This handy guide covers:

• How to select your material and build a line of argument
• A three-step drafting process that organically grows your text into a coherent paper
• Tools and techniques for shaping your text into a publishable manuscript
• Tips for avoiding unhelpful writing behaviors
• Efficiency lessons to summarize each chapter
• Practical exercises for writers at any stage

In an accessible and engaging format, Efficient Scientific Writing delivers the definitive guide to writing better papers, faster.

Öivind Andersson is the author of the acclaimed Experiment!, which has been called one of the most reader-friendly introductions to experimental methodology available. He is a professor in Engineering at Lund University, Sweden, where teaching and supervising PhD students in scientific writing is a cherished part of his everyday activities. He is also one of the hosts of the podcast The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Writing in Academia.