Bird group writing advice
Contents
Introduction
This page is designed to provide links to information on writing scientific papers that might be helpful to students in the bird group. Of course, others are welcome to use the site if it is helpful.
Please note that none of these materials are things that we have generated. Any credit should go to the fine people who have made their materials widely available.
Any comments/questions should be directed to Chris Elphick.
Basic advice on writing well
If you've not read Strunk and White, you should. If you have, read it again. It's on-line here.
A plea for scholarly writing by Harold Heatwole
Information on where to publish
A guide for conservation research by Peter Kareiva and Chris Yuan-Farrell
Presenting statistics in published work
An editorial from Journal of Wildlife Management
Responding to reviewers
One approach I'll try to find an alternative perspective ....
Some perspective on getting a paper rejected
Publication and rejection among successful ecologists by Phillip Cassey and Tim Blackburn Publication rejection among ecologists by Phillip Cassey and Tim Blackburn