Scientific English

Author : Robert A. Day
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scientific English written by Robert A. Day and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes the functions and proper use of the nine parts of speech, four main types of phrases, two types of clauses, and punctuation. Day also covers voice, person and tense; redundancies and jargon; abbreviations and acronyms; and language sensitivities, all in his refreshingly literate and humorous style.

Author : Robert A. Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313391742
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scientific English written by Robert A. Day and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and highly readable book gives anyone writing in the sciences a clear and easy-to-follow guide to the English language. English is often regarded as one of the most difficult languages to master. Yet while the English language has a vocabulary of upwards of 500,000 words, it only uses nine parts of speech, and all of these words fall into one (or more) of those nine categories. Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals, Third Edition contains many simple revelations like this that make effective scientific writing in English easy, even for those whose fluency is in another language. The book is organized around a basic guide to English grammar that is specifically tailored to the needs of scientists, science writers, science educators, and science students. The authors explain the goals of scientific writing, the role of style, and the various kinds of writing in the sciences, then provide a basic guide to the fundamentals of English and address problem areas such as redundancies, abbreviations and acronyms, jargon, and foreign terms. Email, online publishing, blogs, and writing for the Web are covered as well. This book is designed to be an enlightening and entertaining read that can then be retained as a practical scientific writing reference guide.

Author : Michael D. Gordin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022600032X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scientific Babel written by Michael D. Gordin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.

Author : Anne E. Greene
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022602640X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Science in Plain English written by Anne E. Greene and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific writing is often dry, wordy, and difficult to understand. But, as Anne E. Greene shows in Writing Science in Plain English,writers from all scientific disciplines can learn to produce clear, concise prose by mastering just a few simple principles. This short, focused guide presents a dozen such principles based on what readers need in order to understand complex information, including concrete subjects, strong verbs, consistent terms, and organized paragraphs. The author, a biologist and an experienced teacher of scientific writing, illustrates each principle with real-life examples of both good and bad writing and shows how to revise bad writing to make it clearer and more concise. She ends each chapter with practice exercises so that readers can come away with new writing skills after just one sitting. Writing Science in Plain English can help writers at all levels of their academic and professional careers—undergraduate students working on research reports, established scientists writing articles and grant proposals, or agency employees working to follow the Plain Writing Act. This essential resource is the perfect companion for all who seek to write science effectively.

Author : Matthew Peacock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521801303
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Perspectives on English for Academic Purposes written by Matthew Peacock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of specially commissioned articles examines theory and practice in EAP.

Author : Scott L. Montgomery
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226535037
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Does Science Need a Global Language? written by Scott L. Montgomery and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 2012, the global scientific community erupted with news that the elusive Higgs boson had likely been found, providing potent validation for the Standard Model of how the universe works. Scientists from more than one hundred countries contributed to this discovery—proving, beyond any doubt, that a new era in science had arrived, an era of multinationalism and cooperative reach. Globalization, the Internet, and digital technology all play a role in making this new era possible, but something more fundamental is also at work. In all scientific endeavors lies the ancient drive for sharing ideas and knowledge, and now this can be accomplished in a single tongue— English. But is this a good thing? In Does Science Need a Global Language?, Scott L. Montgomery seeks to answer this question by investigating the phenomenon of global English in science, how and why it came about, the forms in which it appears, what advantages and disadvantages it brings, and what its future might be. He also examines the consequences of a global tongue, considering especially emerging and developing nations, where research is still at a relatively early stage and English is not yet firmly established. Throughout the book, he includes important insights from a broad range of perspectives in linguistics, history, education, geopolitics, and more. Each chapter includes striking and revealing anecdotes from the front-line experiences of today’s scientists, some of whom have struggled with the reality of global scientific English. He explores topics such as student mobility, publication trends, world Englishes, language endangerment, and second language learning, among many others. What he uncovers will challenge readers to rethink their assumptions about the direction of contemporary science, as well as its future.

Author : Gábor Lövei
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800640927
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers written by Gábor Lövei and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gábor Lövei’s scientific communication course for students and scientists explores the intricacies involved in publishing primary scientific papers, and has been taught in more than twenty countries. Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers is the distillation of Lövei’s lecture notes and experience gathered over two decades; it is the coursebook many have been waiting for. The book’s three main sections correspond with the three main stages of a paper’s journey from idea to print: planning, writing, and publishing. Within the book’s chapters, complex questions such as ‘How to write the introduction?’ or ‘How to submit a manuscript?’ are broken down into smaller, more manageable problems that are then discussed in a straightforward, conversational manner, providing an easy and enjoyable reading experience. Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers stands out from its field by targeting scientists whose first language is not English. While also touching on matters of style and grammar, the book’s main goal is to advise on first principles of communication. This book is an excellent resource for any student or scientist wishing to learn more about the scientific publishing process and scientific communication. It will be especially useful to those coming from outside the English-speaking world and looking for a comprehensive guide for publishing their work in English.

Author : Ethel Schuster Editor
Publisher : Hyprtek.Com, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9788588533974
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Scientific Papers in English Successfully written by Ethel Schuster Editor and published by Hyprtek.Com, Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Having to communicate in English is necessary in today's world. English is the lingua franca of science, and of the speedy communications we depend on, namely the Internet, the World Wide Web, social media, crowdsourcing, and other information-sharing resources. The challenge to produce well-written papers is especially hard for non-native speakers of English, the majority of scientists around the world. Effective scientific writing requires both mastery of the English language and proficiency in the specific academic genre ... We have developed a strategy to tackle the problems faced by writers who are new to the scientific writing genre and style. This strategy can help both non-natives attempting to overcome the language barrier and native speakers of English ... This book is divided into two parts: the first part provides the theoretical foundations of scientific writing. The second part details the strategies, techniques, and tools that are at the heart of our approach"--Preface

Author : Dorothy Emily Royds-Irmak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beginning Scientific English written by Dorothy Emily Royds-Irmak and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ramón Plo Alastrué
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501501119
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English as a Scientific and Research Language written by Ramón Plo Alastrué and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the role of English in academic and research settings in Europe and provides recommendations on the challenges posed by the dominance of English over national languages as languages of science and research dissemination; the need for language support for academics that need to disseminate their research in English; and the effect of past and present language policies.