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04-26-2023
06:00 PM
07:30 PM
IB 1046 & Online
Join us at this hybrid book panel discussion, “The Scientific Paper: Where It’s Been, and Where It Might be Going”! This event is co-organized by Duke Kunshan University Library and the Princeton University Press China Office (PUP China).
The keynote speaker for the event is Stephen B. Heard, Professor of Biology at the University of New Brunswick and author of the book “The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively throughout Your Scientific Career”. He will be discussing the evolution of scientific writing over the past 350 years, with attention to their history and recent changes, and some guesses at how that change may continue into the future. We are delighted to have Lijing Yan, Professor of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University, and Hong Xu, University Librarian at Duke Kunshan University Library, as our guest speakers and moderator, respectively.
The event will take place on April 26th, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm (Beijing Time, UTC+8) at IB 1046 and will be hosted on Zoom https://pupress.zoom.us/j/95212182753 as well.
In addition, Princeton University Press has collaborated with Fan Pu 返朴, a leading science new media platform in China with almost 1 million professional followers on key social media, to live broadcast this event through their social media channels.
The book “The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively throughout Your Scientific Career” can be accessed by
Panelists Introduction:
Stephen B. Heard is professor of biology at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. Dr. Stephen Heard completed his BSc (Biology) at the University of Waterloo, and a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania (1993). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia and then took a faculty job at the University of Iowa in 1995. In 2002, he joined the faculty at UNB.
Steve’s research interests are diverse, but revolve around the ways that interactions among species have shaped the clades and ecological communities we see today.
Steve is the author of two books. As a scientist with rich writing and publishing experience, he wrote a guidebook for scientific writers —— The Scientist’s Guide to Writing (Princeton University Press, 2016; and 2nd edition, 2022) and a book for general public—— Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels (Yale University Press, 2020). He also writes the award-winning blog Scientist Sees Squirrel.
Lijing L. Yan, PhD, MPH, Professor (with tenure) of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University, adjunct professor at Peking University Institute for Global Health and Development and Wuhan University School of Public Health. She is the Head of Non-communicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs) Research at the Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, since July 2014. She is also currently an Honorary Professorial Fellow of the George Institute for Global Health, China and an Adjunct Professor at Duke University, USA, and the Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. She has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Peking University, a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology and a doctoral degree in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her main areas of research are primary-care and community-based chronic disease prevention and control (hypertension, stroke, heart disease, and diabetes in particular), healthy aging, health innovation and implementation science. She is the Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on a number of US NIH and UK MRC-funded and China-funded research grants. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers some of which in leading medical journals such as JAMA, the Lancet, NEJM, and Circulation. Her Google Scholar H-index was 57 and i10-index 107.
(Helen) Hong Xu is the University Librarian at Duke Kunshan University and the Associate University Librarian for Duke Kunshan Library Services at Duke University. She was the Associate Librarian at City University of Hong Kong Library. Before that position, she was the Head of the East Asian Library at the University of Pittsburgh. She also taught in the Universities in China and the United States. (Helen) Hong Xu has a variety of research interests including user study, bibliometrics, library and information science education, and library management. She serves on the editorial boards of several domestic and international academic journals. She has edited a number of books and published numerous research papers/chapters in journals and books. She is a frequently invited guest speaker for universities and different types of libraries in Greater China region.
(Helen) Hong Xu received her B.A. and M.A. in Library Science from Wuhan University. She also hold an M. Ed. in Educational Psychology and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Book Intruduction:
The Scientist’s Guide to Writing:
How to Write More Easily and Effectively throughout Your Scientific Career
科学家的写作指南：如何在科研生涯中更便捷有效地写作
A concise and accessible primer on the scientific writer’s craft
The ability to write clearly is critical to any scientific career. The Scientist’s Guide to Writing provides practical advice to help scientists become more effective writers so that their ideas have the greatest possible impact.
Drawing on his own experience as a scientist, graduate adviser, and editor, Stephen Heard emphasizes that the goal of all scientific writing should be absolute clarity; that good writing takes deliberate practice; and that what many scientists need are not long lists of prescriptive rules but rather direct engagement with their behaviors and attitudes when they write. He combines advice on such topics as how to generate and maintain writing momentum with practical tips on structuring a scientific paper, revising a first draft, handling citations, responding to peer reviews, managing coauthorships, and more.
In an accessible, informal tone, The Scientist’s Guide to Writing explains essential techniques that students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career scientists need to write more clearly, efficiently, and easily.
Dinner and drinks will be provided at IB 1046 during the event. To confirm your attendance, please scan the QR code below or register here: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_09v9FQgGS4zQPki before Monday April 24th.
We look forward to your participation!
If you have any questions, please contact the Library at dkulibrary@dukekunshan.edu.cn.
