ISBN-13: 9780412583605 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 110 str.
When I was first approached to write this book I remembered the students I had seen, vainly trying to come to grips with the simple mechanics of producing a project report. Usually the chemistry itself had presented few problems, although sometimes it was clear that they had made an unfortunate choice of project. In other cases their endeavours could be 3 likened to pouring lOOcm beakers of water into the desert sands since they neither had any idea of the direction their project should take nor were they capable of steering it in that direction. Equally pitiful, as the deadline approached, were the sufferings of those who believed they could do their project in their spare time. Yet others came to grief upon obstacles they should have seen from a long way back. There have also been students whose lectures on their work were distorted by speaker's nerves and whose distress has made me offer some advice on presentation and self-confidence. In fact few of their lectures were particularly bad, the really bad lectures more usually stemmed from overconfidence. It is in the hope of preventing these and similar disasters that this book has been written. Students will look in vain in its pages for advice on the operation of the latest X-ray diffractometer or multinuclear NMR machine, even the operation of the pipette and burette has been virtually ignored.