A Guide to Scientific Writing by David Lindsay (Longman, £7.99, ISBN 0
582 80312 8) is the second edition of a book that explains the common sense that
any writer of a scientific paper should apply, but all too often does not. It
should be in every scientific toiler’s knapsack.
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