Chemistry: Writing

A freely available chapter from the longer ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication.

The American Chemical Society provides videos and articles from our editor community on tips for scientific writing, securing funding, rejection, and much more.

This brief reference manual compiled by Professor P. D. Bailey, Sara Shinton and Ross Mackie of Heriot-Watt University provides guidance on how to communicate effectively and efficiently both in writing and orally. It offers advice about writing reports of various types (from lecture or lab notes, through to research reports), giving talks, preparing material with visual impact, getting hold of information, and dealing with colleagues in a variety of situations.

A free, comprehensive, peer-reviewed, award-winning Open Text for students and faculty in college-level courses that require writing and research.

A guide to the scientific writing style and format that addresses four major aspects of writing journal-style scientific papers: Fundamental style considerations; A suggested strategy for efficiently writing up research results; The nuts and bolts of format and content of each section of a paper ; and, Basic information regarding peer critiques of scientific writing.

This guide produced by Fred Stoss of the University of Buffalo provides resources to make designing effective poster presentations easier.

A guide created by George Hess, Kathryn Tosney, and Leon Liegelto of North Carolina State Universityt to help you create effective poster presentations.

The DOs and DON’Ts in creating effective conference posters, by Colin Purrington.

This web site has science writing manuals, style guides, software, and other tools for writing assistance.

A tutorial from the libraries of the University of Colorado that focuses on publishing in scholarly journals. It includes modules on the role of scholarly publishing, the essential steps of planning and writing a scholarly paper, developing a personal publication plan, different publishing models, types of articles, collaborative authoring, and the tools and resources a scholarly writer needs to have on hand.

These guidelines for engineering writing and scientific writing are designed to help students communicate their technical work. To that end, these guidelines contain advice, models, and exercises for common writing and speaking assignments in engineering and science.

A guide to writing that also covers the publication process, and researching information in chemistry.

Users worldwide will find here information, materials, and exercises to assist with many writing projects.

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, provides free access to this book.

Helps you compose bold, clear, mistake-free writing.

You may want to consider some of these artificial intelligence tools to suggest improvements to your writings.

An artificial intelligence writing assistant software that checks grammar, spelling, punctuation and plagiarism.