Write Like a Chemist

Write Like a Chemist: A Guide and Resource focuses on four types of writing that are common inchemistry: the journal article, conference abstract, scientific poster, and research proposal. Users ofthe book will learn to write through a host of exercises, ranging in difficulty from correcting singlewords and sentences to writing professional-quality papers, abstracts, posters, and proposals. This second edition of Write Like a Chemist has been updated to include new excerpts from theprimary literature and other chemistry genres, updated tables and figures that can be consultedfor chemistry-specific writing patterns and practices, infographics developed by inChemistry thatconvey essentials for writing conference abstracts and preparing scientific posters, a scientificposter template and corresponding model poster that can be used for poster creation, andupdated exercises and task types. Additional resources have been placed on the Write Like aChemist companion website, with a separate section for chemistry faculty adopting the book fora university course.