<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>This writing guide, by the author of Pearson's best-selling <I>Short Guide to Writing about Biology </I>along with two well-known chemists, teaches students to think as chemists and to express ideas clearly and concisely through their writing. </B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">               </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Providing students with the tools they'll need to be successful writers, <I>A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry</I> emphasizes writing as a way of examining, evaluating, and sharing ideas. The book teaches readers how to read critically, study, evaluate and report data, and how to communicate information clearly and logically. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P>Students are also given detailed advice on locating, evaluating, and citing useful sources within the discipline; maintaining effective laboratory notebooks and writing laboratory reports; writing effective research proposals and reports; and communicating information to both professional and general audiences.<BR>