Handouts

Common Boo Boos & Key to Editing (PDF)

Plagiarism (PDF)

Sample Cover Letter (PDF)

Sample Outline (PDF)

Common Proofreading Marks

Links

Journal of Wildlife Management guidelines

Careful Citation: Avoiding Plagiarism. The Humanities Handbook, Earlham College

Code of Ethics. Ecological Society of America

Guidelines for Reviewers. Ecological Society of America

Code of Ethics. Society for Conservation Biology
       English
       Chinese translation by 2005 Scientific Writing Classes (Published in 2007 in NOW 11(1):41 last item on page)

Condor Archives

Ethical Guidelines to Publication. Journal of Wildlife Diseases (PDF)

Evaluating Internet Research Sources. Harris R. (1997)

Graduate Student Handbook, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

'How to write consistently boring scientific literature' by K. Sand-Jensen. 2007. Oikos 116:723-727 (PDF)

Policy on Papers' Contributors. Nature 399:393

Standard abbreviations of journal names

Steady State Economy as a Sustainable Alternative to Economic Growth

Successful Publishing Strageties for Authors. Canadian Journal of Zoology

Romanization of Taiwan Place Names. Taiwan Ministry of Interior

Wiley-Blackwell Publishers on Publication Ethics:
   Graf et al. 2006. Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics. Int J Clin Pract 61(s152):1-26
   If a reviewer or reader suspects plagiarism

Upper, D. 1974. The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of "writer's block". Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 7(3)497.

Didde, R. J. Sigafoos, G.E. Lancioni, and P. Sturmey. 2007. A multisite cross-cultural replication of Upper's (1974) unsuccessful self-treatmentof writer's block. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 40:773.

Writing Abstracts
   for papers
   for conferences

Preparing Posters

Preparing Talks

Writings by Scientists for the Public (examples)

Jared Diamond. 2008. What's your consumption factor? New York Times.

James Hansen. 2008. Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Guardian.

E.O. Wilson. 2007. Acting now to save life on Earth. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.