M-58. Geoscientific Writing: A Guide to Language and Composition Styles

Abstract

The art of communication is a difficult art and has to be cultivated with deliberate effort by enlarging, defining and diversifying one's own personality. These guidelines to geoscientific writing are intended to help a large number of our young geoscientist's in developing the essential skills of effective and cogent communication. Elements of language and composition are dealt in detail from the point of requirements of earth scientists The appendices provide a quick cross-check possibility when in doubt about a particular expression, idiom or commonly misspelt word.