English for writing research papers / Adrian Wallwork.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallwork, Adrian, Author.

Series:

English for Academic Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Linguistics.

English language.

English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.

Academic writing.

English language--Rhetoric.

Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar.

Local Subjects:

Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Science and Business Media, 2016.

Summary:

Publishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide is based on a study of over 1000 manuscripts and reviewers' reports revealing why papers written by non-native researchers are often rejected due to problems with English usage and poor structure and content. With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and examples taken from published and unpublished papers, you will learn how to: prepare and structure a manuscript increase readability and reduce the number of mistakes you make in English by writing concisely, with no redundancy and no ambiguity write a title and an abstract that will attract attention and be read decide what to include in the various parts of the paper (Introduction, Methodology, Discussion etc) highlight your claims and contribution avoid plagiarism discuss the limitations of your research choose the correct tenses and style satisfy the requirements of editors and reviewers This new edition contains over 40% new material, including two new chapters, stimulating factoids, and discussion points both for self-study and in-class use. EAP teachers will find this book to be a great source of tips for training students, and for preparing both instructive and entertaining lessons.

Contents:

PART 1. WRITING SKILLS

1. Planning and Preparation

2. Structuring a sentence: word order

3. Structuring Paragraphs

4. Breaking Up Long Sentences

5. Being Concise and Removing Redundancy

6. Avoiding ambiguity, repetition, and vague language

7. Clarifying Who Did What

8. Highlighting Your Findings

9. Discussing your limitations

10. Hedging and Criticising

11. Plagiarism and Paraphrasing

PART 2. SECTIONS OF A PAPER

12. Titles

13. Abstracts

14. Introduction

15. Review of the Literature

16. Methods

17. Results

18. Discussion

19. Conclusions

20. The Final Check.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319260945

3319260944

OCLC:

944186080