How to write and publish a scientific paper by R. A. Day

I love prefaces! And this writer sounds like an absolutely nice man.

"There are four things that make this world go round: love, energy, materials, and information. We see about us a critical shortage of the first commodity, a near-critical shortage of the second, increasing shortage of the third, but an absolute glut of the fourth.

We in science, of necessity, must contribute to the glut. But let us do it with love, especially love of the English language, which is the cornerstone of our intellectual heritage; let us also do it with energy, the energy we need to put into the scientific paper so that the reader will not need to use much energy to get the information out of the paper; and let us husband our materials, especially our words, so that we do not waste inordinate quantities of paper and ink in trying to tell the world more than we know."

"The research scientist must provide a written document showing what he did, why he did it, how he did it, and what he learnt from it."

"In this way, the reader, particularly the graduate student and fledgling writer, may get something of the flavor of just what a scientific paper is."