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Essay review: Writing about geology
Author(s) -
Donovan Stephen K.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
geological journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.721
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1099-1034
pISSN - 0072-1050
DOI - 10.1002/gj.1288
Subject(s) - geologist , publication , task (project management) , geology , library science , computer science , engineering , paleontology , political science , systems engineering , law
Geologists need to write and publish, but completing a Ph.D. is not the same as taking a writing course for academic authors. Writing for publication is a core academic task; only when a discovery has been published does it enter the consciousness of geology. But a geologist must learn how to write by practice. Writing about Archaeology by Graham Connah examines the basics of academic authorship in terms that are broadly applicable to geology, too. Good authors in geology are made, not born. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.