English for Writing Research Papers

At least two-thirds of published scientific papers are written by researchers whose first language is not English
20% of the comments referees make when reviewing papers for possible publication in international journals regard English language issues
In some disciplines, acceptance rate by journals of papers originating from the US/UK is 30.4%, and is higher than all other countries

How to: structure sections (abstract, methods) and keep editors/ referees happy Sentence/paragraph structure; avoiding redundancy, ambiguity and plagiarism; using AI to correct and paraphrase Unique insights into writing skills based on editing around 5000 research papers authored by non-natives

Auteur
Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 40 English Language Teaching (ELT) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and researchers from 50 countries to write papers. He edits research manuscripts through his own proofreading and editing agency.

Contenu
Introduction.- PART I. Writing Skills.- 1. Planning and Preparation.- 2. Word order and sentence length.- 3. Structuring Paragraphs.- 4.Being Concise and Removing Redundancy.- 5. Avoiding ambiguity, repetition, and vague language.- 6. Clarifying and Highlighting.- 7. Discussing your limitations.- 8. Readability.- 9. Chatbots.- 10. Automatic translations.- Part II: Sections of a Paper.- 11.Titles.- 12. Abstracts: Standard Types.- 13. Abstracts: Particular Types.- 14. Introduction.- 15. Writing a Review of the Literature.- 16. Methods.- 17. Results.- 18. Discussion.- 19. Conclusions.- 20. The Final Check.