English for academic research : grammar, usage and style / Adrian Wallwork.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallwork, Adrian, author.

Series:

Wallwork, Adrian. English for academic research

English for Academic Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic writing.

Report writing.

English language--Rhetoric.

English language.

English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2023]

Summary:

This guide draws on English-related errors from around 6000 papers written by non-native authors, 500 abstracts written by PhD students, and over 2000 hours of teaching researchers how to write and present research papers. This new edition has chapters on exploiting AI tools such as ChatGPT, Google Translate, and Reverso, for generating, paraphrasing, translating and correcting texts written in English. It also deals with contemporary issues such as the use of gender pronouns. Due to its focus on the specific errors that repeatedly appear in papers written by non-native authors, this manual is an ideal study guide for use in universities and research institutes. Such errors are related to the usage of articles, countable vs. uncountable nouns, tenses, modal verbs, active vs. passive form, relative clauses, infinitive vs. -ing form, the genitive, link words, quantifiers, word order, prepositions, acronyms, abbreviations, numbers and measurements, punctuation, and spelling. Other titles in this series: Grammar, Vocabulary, and Writing Exercises (three volumes) 100 Tips to Avoid Mistakes in Academic Writing and Presenting English for Writing Research Papers English for Presentations at International Conferences English for Academic Correspondence English for Interacting on Campus English for Academic CVs, Resumes, and Online Profiles English for Academic Research: A Guide for Teachers 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 and give presentations. He edits research manuscripts through his own proofreading and editing service.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Abbreviations, acronyms, and punctuation

2. Adverbs and prepositions

3 Articles: a / an / the / zero article

4. Genitive: the possessive form of nouns

5. Infinitive versus gerund (−ing form)

6. Link Words

7. Measurements and numbers, abbreviations, symbols, comparisons, use of articles

8. Modal verbs: can, may, could, should, must etc..

9. Nouns: countable vs uncountable, plurals

10. Personal pronouns, names, titles

11. Proofreading tools: checking the correctness of your English

12. Quantifiers: any, some, much, many, much, each, every etc.

13. Readability

14. Tenses: present and past

15. Tenses: future, conditional, passive forms

16. Translating using AI

17. Word order

18. ChatGPT

Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 27, 2023).

ISBN:

9783031315176

3031315170

OCLC:

1399970346

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.