Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Scientific Method.- Chapter 2 Finding Information About Topics in Science.- Chapter 3 Reading and Writing About Science.- Chapter 4 Documenting Sources.- Chapter 5 Step-by-Step Instructions for Preparing a Scientific Paper.- Chapter 6 Data Analysis Using Statistics.- Chapter 7 Revision.- Chapter 8 Sample Student Laboratory Reports.- Chapter 9 Poster Presentations.- Chapter 10 Oral Presentations.- Appendix 1 Word Processing in MS Word 2019.- Appendix 2 Making Graphs in MS Excel 2019.- Appendix 3 Preparing Oral Presentations with MS PowerPoint 2019.

About the Author

Karin Knisely is Lab Director of Core Course Biology at Bucknell University. She earned a B.S. in Biology from Bucknell (where she was a three-sport athlete and is now enshrined in the Athletics Hall of Fame) and an M.S. in Zoology from the University of New Hampshire. She then completed a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) fellowship at the University of Konstanz. Bilingual in German and English, she translated "You cannot imagine what it is like in America," an authoritative book by Friedemann Fegert about emigration from the Bavarian Forest to the United States from 1841 to 1931 (2021 Lichtland).