English for Academic Research: Writing Exercises

• 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.; Language and education.; Communication.; Language Education.; Communication Studies.; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.