Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals

This entertaining and highly readable book gives anyone writing in the sciences a clear and easy-to-follow guide to the English language.
 • Includes cartoons and humorous illustrations that help reinforce important concepts
• Provides a glossary that allows readers to easily reference the meanings of grammatical terms used in the book
• Incorporates a wide variety of quotations to provide humor, make points, or reinforce key concepts
• Includes an entire chapter on electronic media as well as new material on self-editing

Politics & Social Sciences

Sakaduski, Nancy

DAY,Robert A.

Social Sciences

Greenwood

This entertaining and highly readable book gives anyone writing in the sciences a clear and easy-to-follow guide to the English language.
English is often regarded as one of the most difficult languages to master. Yet while the English language has a vocabulary of upwards of 500,000 words, it only uses nine parts of speech, and all of these words fall into one (or more) of those nine categories. Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals, Third Edition contains many simple revelations like this that make effective scientific writing in English easy, even for those whose fluency is in another language.
The book is organized around a basic guide to English grammar that is specifically tailored to the needs of scientists, science writers, science educators, and science students. The authors explain the goals of scientific writing, the role of style, and the various kinds of writing in the sciences, then provide a basic guide to the fundamentals of English and address problem areas such as redundancies, abbreviations and acronyms, jargon, and foreign terms. Email, online publishing, blogs, and writing for the Web are covered as well. This book is designed to be an enlightening and entertaining read that can then be retained as a practical scientific writing reference guide.
 • Includes cartoons and humorous illustrations that help reinforce important concepts
• Provides a glossary that allows readers to easily reference the meanings of grammatical terms used in the book
• Incorporates a wide variety of quotations to provide humor, make points, or reinforce key concepts
• Includes an entire chapter on electronic media as well as new material on self-editing

From swooping seagulls to frolicking dolphins, the familiar sights and sounds of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware are captured in this charming book, which children will beg to read again and again. The delightful rhyming text is complemented by amusing illustrations of children on the kiddie rides, sipping snow cones, examining jellyfish, and even reluctantly taking a nap. The book opens with “A is for arcade,” which depicts a little boy gleefully whacking moles as tickets spew from the machine. Each page features a different letter of the alphabet and highlights a favorite feature of summer in Rehoboth. Children will identify with such familiar scenes as choosing taffy in a candy store, packing for a day at the beach, building a sandcastle, and watching the family umbrella spin down the beach, chased by a frantic dad. The brightly colored drawings are intentionally inclusive, so African-American, Asian, and disabled children, as well as children of same-sex parents, will all see themselves taking part in the fun. A Rehoboth ABC is geared for children ages 2-8, but could easily be enjoyed by both younger and older children, as well as their parents and grandparents. Residents and vacationers alike will want to make this part of their home library, to enjoy any time a burst of summer happiness is desired.

A Rehoboth ABC

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Cat & Mouse Press

How do you know you're in Rehoboth Beach? The dogs are smaller than the martinis, you won't get ketchup with those fries, and happy hour starts at 9am. These and more idiosyncrasies of Rehoboth are captured in Seth Pala's comical illustrations and Nancy Sakaduski's amusing text. Whether you are a visitor or a local, you will recognize the unique charm of Rehoboth in this hilarious book.

You Know You're in Rehoboth When

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

A fortune-telling machine with a mind of its own, professional killers hanging out by the hotel pool, granny run amok in Funland…what’s happened to Rehoboth? Some very talented writers have created a book of great beach reads, that’s what. This book contains twenty-five short stories set in and around Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The stories are the winning entries from the Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story contest and were selected by a panel of judges. This is the second book in the Rehoboth Beach Reads series (the first is The Beach House). The book is perfect for beach reading, but works just as well by the fire on a cold winter's night.

The Boardwalk

Short Stories & Anthologies

A researcher who conducts a project to find romance and encounters an unexpected variable, a woman seeking solitude who learns that things aren’t always as they appear, a man who gets postcards seemingly from his dead wife, and a couple of elderly ladies who break out of the old-age home for one last fling in Rehoboth—these are just a few of the engaging characters you will meet in this entertaining collection of beach reads set in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The 24 short stories in this anthology are as varied and pleasurable as Rehoboth itself. You needn’t have been to Rehoboth to enjoy this book, but those who know this popular beach town are in for a special treat, as they will recognize the restaurants, inns, streets, and activities mentioned in the stories and be able to relive their own beach day memories.

Beach Days

From fishing in the canal to watching the ferry come in, the familiar sights and sounds of Lewes, Delaware are captured in this charming picture book illustrated by Emory Au. Children will recognize activities such as digging for treasure on the beach, watching the dolphins frolic, going on the rides in Rehoboth, and visiting the Zwaanendael Museum. Geared for children ages 2-8, but easily enjoyed by younger and older children, as well as their parents and grandparents. Residents and vacationers alike will want to make this part of their home library. The delightful rhyming text is complemented by intentionally inclusive illustrations.

A Lewes ABC

How to Write Winning Short Stories is a concise and practical guide that includes developing a theme and premise, choosing a title, creating characters, crafting realistic dialogue, bringing the setting to life, working with structure, and editing. Submission and marketing advice is also provided. The author, who manages an annual short story competition, offers guidance on manuscript formatting, submission options, contest entry, and how to get the attention of a publisher or contest judge. The book is perfect for anyone who is considering writing a short story. It will give beginning writers a practical playbook for getting started and help experienced writers build their skills. Based on the author's experiences running an annual short story contest and working with dozens of writers to help them improve and perfect their stories, combined with extensive research (the bibliography contains 80+ sources), here, in one concise little guide, is the best advice and most successful tips for writing winning short stories. Each chapter concludes with a handy checklist for reviewing what was learned and checking stories for possible areas of improvement. Contents • What Is a “Winning” Short Story? • Why Short Stories? o Getting Started o The Market o Choosing What to Write o Preparing to Write • The Importance of Story o The Beginning o The Central Conflict o Details, Details, Details o The Ending • Premise and Theme • Structure o Time Frame, Sequence, and Transitions o Making a Scene o Flashbacks o Pacing • Setting • Characters o Choosing Characters o Character Names o Attributes/Descriptions • Telling the Story o Point of View o The Viewpoint Character o Voice • Dialogue o Creating Realistic Dialogue o Dialogue among Characters o Unspoken Thoughts • The Title • Editing o The Editing Process o Self-Editing o Developmental Editing o Copyediting o Proofreading • Facts, Logic, and Lawyers o Fact-Checking o Logic o Legal Issues • Marketing Short Stories o Identifying Markets o Magazines o Anthologies o Contests and Awards o How to Submit o The “Wow Factor” o Repurposing Your Stories • Bibliography • Index

How to Write Winning Short Stories: A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

In this fourth book in the Rehoboth Beach Reads series, you'll encounter a ghostly WWII tower and a couple with an unusual annual tradition; a girl who finds her voice at a jazz club and a boy who learns the snow cone king has a secret; an old lady who is inspired to get a tattoo, and a despondent man who is resurrected through the tango. A eclectic collection of delightful beach reads.

Beach Nights

Beach Life is the 5th book in the award-winning Rehoboth Beach Reads series of short story collections set in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. This anthology contains 25 stories in a variety of genres (historical fiction, romance, magical realism, memoir, mystery, humor) that make perfect beach reads but can be enjoyed any time of the year. Here's just some of what's in store in Beach Life: You’ll find a girl with dreams of making the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, a consignment store jacket with a history, a well-traveled hermit crab, a mermaid wedding, and a boardwalk mime. You'll meet a young con artist, a dolphin rescuer, a herd of Hemingway impersonators, a girl who's gone viral, and a woman who realizes she's a dead ringer for her husband's former flame. Contents: Hole in One, Amanda Linehan The Mime’s Niece, Emily Zasada The Fog, Linda Chambers Too Many Hemingways, Joseph L. Crossen Not in My World, Kathleen Martens The Bomber Jacket, Jackson Coppley Ralphie to the Rescue, Carl Schiessl The Swimsuit Issue, Chris Jacobsen A Beautifully Disturbing Day at the Beach, John Edmonds Rearrangements, Marie Lathers Some Girls, Michael Sprouse The Nereid’s Wedding, Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan Life Starts on Tiptoes, Lonn Braender Secrets , Amber Tamosaitis The Boy on the Bike, Susan Miller The Stranger and the Horseshoe, Alex Hannah The Bench, Jenny Scott We Found Buried Pirate Treasure!, Douglas Harrell The Sweet Truth, Jeanie P. Blair A Day in the Life, David Strauss And the Sea Hath Spoken, Darryl Forrest Lefty and the Empty Bucket of Fries, Tony Houck Bottleneck at Hole 14, Renay Regardie The Shot Shared Round the World, Joy Givens The Understudy, Terri Kiral

Beach Life (Rehoboth Beach Reads)

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Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals

Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals

A Rehoboth ABC

You Know You're in Rehoboth When

The Boardwalk

Beach Days

A Lewes ABC

How to Write Winning Short Stories: A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication

Beach Nights

Beach Life (Rehoboth Beach Reads)