English for Academic Research: Grammar, Usage and Style

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Wallwork, Adrian (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: English for Academic Research
• Θέματα: Education.; Grammar.; Syntax.; Language and education.; Language Education.; Professional & Vocational Education.

This guide is based on a study of referees’ reports and letters from journal editors on the reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English usage, style and grammar. It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-native author...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• 1. Nouns: plurals, countable vs uncountable
• 2. Genitive: the possessive form of nouns
• 3. Indefinite article: a / an
• 4. Definite article: the
• 5. Zero article: no article
• 6. Quantifiers: any, some, much, many, each, every etc
• 7. Relative pronouns: that, which, who, whose
• 8. Tenses: present, past, future
• 9. Conditional forms: zero, first, second, third
• 10. Passive vs active: impersonal vs personal forms
• 11. Imperative, infinitive, gerund (-ing form)
• 12. Modal verbs: can, may, could, should, must etc
• 13. Link words (adverbs and conjunctions): also, although, but etc
• 14. Adverbs and prepositions: already, yet, at, in, of etc
• 15. Sentence length, conciseness, clarity and ambiguity
• 16. Word order: nouns and verbs
• 17. Word order: adverbs
• 18. Word order: adjectives and past participles
• 19. Comparative and superlative: -er, -est, irregular forms
• 20. Measurements: abbreviations, symbols, use of articles
• 21. Numbers: words vs numerals, plurals, use of articles etc
• 22. Acronyms: usage, grammar, plurals, punctuation
• 23. Abbreviations and Latin words: usage, meaning, punctuation
• 24. Capitalization: headings, dates, figures etc
• 25. Punctuation: apostrophes, colons, commas etc
• 26. Referring to the literature
• 27. Figures and tables: making reference, writing captions and legends
• 28. Spelling: rules, US vs GB, typical typos
• Appendix 1 - Verbs, nouns and adjectives + prepositions
• Appendix 2 - Glossary of terms used in this book
• Index.