English for Academic Research: Writing Exercises
This book is based on a study of referees’ reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problem with English (long sentences, redundancy, poor structure etc.). It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written b...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer US : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Series: | English for Academic Research,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4298-1 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Punctuation and Spelling
- 2. Word Order
- 3. Writing Short Sentences and Paragraphs
- 4. Link Words: Connecting Phrases and Sentences Together
- 5. Being Concise and Removing Redundancy
- 6. Ambiguity and Political Correctness
- 7. Paraphrasing and Avoiding Plagiarism
- 8. Defining, Comparing, Evaluating, and Highlighting
- 9. Anticipating Possible Objections, Indicating Level of Certainty, Discussing Limitations, Hedging, Future Work
- 10. Writing Each Section of a Paper
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Editing Service
- Index.