This excellent guide tells graduate students and other young scientists and engineers everything they need to know to help them work creatively and communicate their achievements in oral presentations and written publications. Also addressing the topics of scientific ethics, electronic publishing, and patents, this concise but comprehensive book will help answer many of the questions faced by novice researchers, there-by making their tasks seem less intimidating. After a preface and an introduction, this book is divided into the following major sections: (1) Introduction; (2) Scientific Creativity; (3) Scientific Presenting; (4) The Culture and Ethics of Scientific Publishing; (5) Writing and Publishing Your Own Paper; (6) Electronic Publishing; and (7) Patents.