English for Writing Research Papers / by Adrian Wallwork.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallwork, Adrian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Continuing education.

Social sciences.

Humanities.

Language Education.

Lifelong Learning.

Humanities and Social Sciences.

Local Subjects:

Language Education.

Lifelong Learning.

Humanities and Social Sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Publishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide 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 problems with English usage. It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-native authors, 500 abstracts by PhD students, and over 1000 hours of teaching researchers how to write and present research papers. With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and with examples taken from published and unpublished papers, you will learn how to: prepare and structure a manuscript increase readability and reduce the number of mistakes you make in English by writing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 plan and organize your paper, and structure each paragraph and each sentence so that the reader can easily follow the logical build-up towards various conclusions 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) select from over 700 useful phrases highlight your claims and contribution avoid plagiarism and make it 100% clear whether you are referring to your own work or someone else’s choose the correct tenses andstyle (active or passive) Other books in the series: English for Presentations at International Conferences English for Academic Correspondence and Socializing English for Research: Usage, Style, and Grammar English for Academic Research: Grammar / Vocabulary / Writing Exercises Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 20 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and academics from 35 countries to prepare and give presentations. Since 1984 he has been revising research papers, and in 2009 he set up englishforacademics.com – a proofreading and editing service specifically for researchers.

Contents:

Introduction.- Part 1. Writing Skills.- Chapter 1. Planning and Preparation

Chapter 2. Word Order.- Chapter 3. Breaking Up Long Sentences

Chapter 4. Structuring Paragraphs and Sentences

Chapter 5. Being Concise and Removing Redundancy

Chapter 6. Avoiding ambiguity and vagueness

Chapter 7. Clarifying Who Did What

Chapter 8. Highlighting Your Findings

Chapter 9. Hedging and Criticising

Chapter 10. Paraphrashing and Plagiarism

Part 2. Sections of a Paper

Chapter 11. Titles

Chapter 12. Abstracts

Chapter 13

Introduction

Chapter 14

Review of the Literature

Chapter 15

Methods

Chapter 16. Results

Chapter 17. Discussion

Chapter 18. Conclusions

Chapter 19. Useful Phrases

Chapter 20. The Final Check

Links and References

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Contact the Author

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299408098

1299408095

9781441979223

1441979220

OCLC:

712777361