ESS/ATMOS 519 OCEAN 518: Scientific Writing and Graphics
University of Washington
Winter 2019

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ESS/ATMS 519, OCEAN 518
Scientific Writing and Graphics

REFERENCE BOOKS
This page provides references to supplementary reading sources.

General writing
Pinker, S., 2014: The Sense of Style. Viking, 359 pp.

Strunk, W., Jr., and E.B. White, 1959: The Elements of Style. Macmillan, 92 pp.

Scientific writing
Greene, A.E., 2013: Writing Science in Plain English. Univ. Chicago Press, 124 pp.

Montgomery, S.L., 2003: The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science. Univ. Chicago Press, 228 pp.

Booth, V., 1993: Communicating in Science. Second Edition. Cambridge Univ. Press, 78 pp.

Alley, M., 1996: The Craft of Scientific Writing. Third Edition, Springer, 292 pp.

Schultz, D.M., 2009: Eloquent Science. American Meteorological Society, 412 pp.

Graphs
Cleveland, W.S., 1994: The Elements of Graphing Data. Revised Edition, AT&T, 297 pp.

Tufte, E.R., 1983: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press, 197 pp.

Proposals
Chapin, P.G., 2004: Research Projects and Research Proposals. Cambridge Univ. Press.

Grammar and usage
Pinker, S., 2014: Telling Right from Wrong. Chapter 6 of The Sense of Style. (above).

Fowler, H.W., 1965: Modern English Usage. Oxford Univ. Press., 725 pp.

Cochrane, J., 2004: Between You and I: A little book of bad English. Sourcebooks Pub.