Resources
Citations
Slightly modified and undisguised documents used in the course include:
Session 4, Exercise 2: Adapted from Sebastian, Mary P., Monica Grant, and Barbara Mensch. 2005. “Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health programme for urban slum dwellers in India,”
Population Council Final Report. New Delhi: Population Council.
Sessions 4-10, Various Exercises: León, Federico, et al. 1998. “Increasing use of reproductive health services in a Peruvian clinic,” in
Family Planning Operations Research: A Book of Readings, eds. James R. Foreit and Tomas Frejka. New York: Population Council.
Session 5, Exercise 1: Adapted from McLachlan, E. W. 2002. “The feasibility of integrated STI prevalence and behaviour surveys in developing countries.”
Sexually Transmitted Infections 78:187-189. http://sti.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/78/3/187, with the permission of BMJ publishers.
Session 6, Exercise 1: Adapted with permission from Ridde, Valéry. 2003. “Fees-for services, cost recovery, and equity in a district of Burkina Faso operating the Bamako Initiative.”
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 81(7): 531-536.
Session 9, Exercise 1: Diouratie Sanogo et al. 2005. “Using systematic screening to increase integration of reproductive health services,”
FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council.
Bibliography
This selected bibliography lists some resources that
participants may find useful in improving their writing. The instructor
may want to use this as a course handout.
Web Resources
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
This
is a network of organizations, headquartered in Britain, dedicated to
increasing access to scientific publications worldwide.
http://www.inasp.info/
Writing for Change
Online self-guided course showing individuals how to write persuasive
articles and scientific articles.
http://www.fahamu.org/WFCEng/
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
About 700 biomedical journals endorse these requirements, which describe
standards for writing, editing, and publishing clear and accurate
articles in the biomedical sciences. Though developed for biomedicine,
the standards are relevant to social science as well. The document
discusses ethics, authorial and editorial responsibility, and article
elements.
http://www.icmje.org/
Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students
Contributors from Virginia Tech and several other U.S. universities
developed this site, which provides guidelines, links, textbook
recommendations, and exercises for writing a variety of documents,
including proposals, presentation slides, posters, instructions, and
journal articles.
Alley, Michael. 1996. The Craft of Scientific Writing (3rd
edition). Boston: Springer.
http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/csw.html
Perelman, Leslie C., James Paradis, and Edward Barrett. 1997. The
Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing (web version).
Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company—an online guide,
developed for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but with much
information available for the public, for producing various types of
technical documents that also covers elements of style, grammar,
punctuation, and issues for non-native speakers of English.
https://mit.imoat.net/handbook/toc.htm
Books
and Articles
American Psychological Association. 2001. Publication Manual of the
American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition. Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association.
Booth, Vernon. 1993. Communicating in Science: Writing a Scientific
Paper and Speaking at Scientific meetings, Second Edition. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press.
Day,
Robert A. 1998. How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, Fifth
Edition. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Press.
