CONTENTS; 1 Introduction; 2 Good Versus Poor Scientific Writing: An Orientation; 2.1 What Is "Good" Scientific Writing?; 2.2 The Plain Language Movement; 2.3 The BASO Pyramid of Scientific Writing; 2.3.1 Baseline; 2.3.2 Style; 2.3.3 Opinion; 2.4 Common Myths and Misconceptions; 2.4.1 What Are Myths and Misconceptions?; 2.4.2 Long and Complicated Sentences; 2.4.3 Misusing or Wasting Specific and Generic Terms; 2.4.4 Reluctance to Use First-Person Pronouns and Overuse of Passive Voice; 2.4.5 Tendency to Turn Sharp and Powerful Verbs into Weighty Nouns 3 Words and Units: Orthography and Punctuation3.1 Correct Spelling; 3.1.1 Getting Words Right; 3.1.2 Using Spell Checkers; 3.2 Consistent Spelling: American English versus British English; 3.3 Punctuation; 3.3.1 Proper Use of Punctuation Marks; 3.3.2 Hyphens and Word Division; 3.3.3 Punctuation Marks Indicating Emotion; 3.3.4 Parentheses and Brackets; 3.3.5 Periods in Titles and Academic Degrees; 3.3.6 Apostrophes in Contractions; 3.3.7 Nonbreaking Spaces and Hyphens; 3.4 Shortened Word Forms in Scientific Writing; 3.4.1 Types of Abbreviations; 3.4.2 True Abbreviations 3.4.2.1 Latin Abbreviations3.4.3 Units of Measurement; 3.4.4 Acronyms and Initialisms; 3.4.5 Contractions; 3.4.6 Suspensions; 3.5 Numbers; 3.5.1 Expressing Numbers in Scientific Texts; 3.5.2 Formats of Numbers; 3.5.3 Ranges of Numbers; 3.5.4 Percentages; 3.6 Capitalization; 3.6.1 Use of Capitals in Scientific English; 3.6.2 Capitals in Proper Nouns (Names); 3.6.3 Capitals in Titles; 3.6.3.1 Capitalizing Hyphenated Compound Words in Titles; 3.6.4 Capitals in Designations; 3.6.5 Capitals in New-Age Words; 4 Forming Sentences: Grammar; 4.1 Why Battle with Grammar? 4.2 The Tenses in Scientific Reporting4.3 Joining Statements; 4.3.1 How Can the Joining of Words or Statements Cause Confusion?; 4.3.2 Nonparallel Verbs; 4.3.3 Nonparallel Modifiers; 4.3.4 Nonparallel Prepositional Phrases; 4.4 Subject-Verb Agreement; 4.4.1 Using the Correct Verb Forms; 4.4.2 Special Nouns; 4.4.3 Collective Nouns; 4.4.4 The Rule of Meaning; 4.4.5 Verb-Matching with "None" and the "Neither-Nor" Linkage; 4.5 Syntax (Order of Words); 4.5.1 Modifying Phrases; 4.5.2 Position of Adverbs in Sentences; 4.5.3 Position of Prepositions in Sentences 4.6 Dangling Participles (and Other Danglers)4.6.1 What Are Danglers?; 4.6.2 Dangling Participles; 4.6.3 Dangling Gerunds; 4.7 The Relative Pronouns "Which" and "That"; 4.8 Use of "Respectively"; 4.9 Plurals of Abstractions and Attributes; 5 Putting It Nicely: Style; 5.1 What Is "Style" in the Context of Scientific Writing?; 5.2 Active versus Passive Voice; 5.2.1 Why Argue about Active/Passive Voice?; 5.2.2 Shifting Emphasis by Choosing the Voice; 5.2.3 The Verb "To Be" in Copula Formulations; 5.3 Overuse of Prepositions; 5.4 Limiting Modifiers and Other Decorative Words 5.4.1 Excessive Adjectives, Adverbs, and Nouns | 
