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English for Writing Research Papers

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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

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Part of the book series: English for Academic Research (EAR)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

Front matter, writing skills, planning and preparation.

Adrian Wallwork

Structuring a Sentence: Word Order

Structuring paragraphs, breaking up long sentences, being concise and removing redundancy, avoiding ambiguity, repetition, and vague language, clarifying who did what, highlighting your findings, discussing your limitations, hedging and criticising, plagiarism and paraphrasing, sections of a paper, introduction, review of the literature.

  • 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
  • Research papers
  • preparing and structuring a manuscript
  • readability
  • avoiding mistakes
  • redundancy and ambiguity
  • introductions
  • review of the literature
  • highlighting results

Book Title : English for Writing Research Papers

Authors : Adrian Wallwork

Series Title : English for Academic Research

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26094-5

Publisher : Springer Cham

eBook Packages : Social Sciences , Social Sciences (R0)

Copyright Information : Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

eBook ISBN : 978-3-319-26094-5 Published: 02 March 2016

Series ISSN : 2625-3445

Series E-ISSN : 2625-3453

Edition Number : 2

Number of Pages : XX, 377

Topics : English , Language Education , Popular Science in Linguistics , Grammar

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1. Consuming content: Books vs videos

2. Reading technical papers

   Type of paper: Engineering vs science vs social science

   Type of paper: Theoretical vs Experimental

   Reading approaches: multiple pass approach, skim and skip approach,  precision reading approach, reference hunting approach.

3. The hierarchical structure of papers

4. Critiquing without reading the entire paper.

5. Reviewing papers.

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  • A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Academic Papers, by Anne Whitaker September 2009
  • On Writing a Thesis by C P Ravikumar,IETE Journal of Education, 2000
  • Microsoft Office 2016, by Joan Lambert and Curtis Frye, Microsoft Press, Washington98052-6399
  • LATEX for Beginners, Edition 5, March 2014 Document Reference: 3722-2014
  • Essential LATEX ++, Jon Warbrick with additions by David Carlisle, Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, Adrian Clark January 1994

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  • Intro Video
  • mod01lec01 - What is Science? - Part 01
  • mod01lec02 - What is Science? - Part 02
  • mod01lec03 - Subjective Thinking Versus Objective Thinking
  • mod01lec04 - Idealism Versus Materialism
  • mod01lec05 - Causality - Part 01
  • mod01lec06 - Causality - Part 02
  • mod02lec07 - Logical Reasoning: Inductive Logic
  • mod02lec08 - Logical Reasoning: Deductive Logic - Part 01
  • mod02lec09 - Logical Reasoning: Deductive Logic - Part 02
  • mod02lec10 - Logical Reasoning: Syllogistic Logic - Part 01
  • mod02lec11 - Logical Reasoning: Syllogistic Logic - Part 02
  • mod02lec12 - Logical Reasoning: Syllogism Logic, Truth and Validity
  • mod03lec13 - Historical Perspective: Emergence of Materialism and Idealism - Part 01
  • mod03lec14 - Historical Perspective: Emergence of Materialism and Idealism - Part 02
  • mod03lec15 - Historical Perspective:Renaissance to the Development of Mechanical Materialism-Part 01
  • mod03lec16 - Historical Perspective:Renaissance to the Development of Mechanical Materialism-Part 02
  • mod03lec17 - Historical Perspective: The Advent of Empiricism and the Idea of Evolution
  • mod03lec18 - Historical Perspective: Science in Ancient India
  • mod04lec19 - Historical Perspective: The Advent of Scientific Materialism - Part 01
  • mod04lec20 - Historical Perspective: The Advent of Scientific Materialism - Part 02
  • mod04lec21 - Historical Perspective: The Rise and Fall of Positivism - Part 01
  • mod04lec22 - Historical Perspective: The Rise and Fall of Positivism - Part 02
  • mod04lec23 - What Scientists Actually Do - Part 01
  • mod04lec24 - What Scientists Actually Do - Part 02
  • mod05lec25 - Falsifiability and Reproducibility - Part 01
  • mod05lec26 - Falsifiability and Reproducibility - Part 02
  • mod05lec27 - Proposing a Hypothesis - Part 01
  • mod05lec28 - Proposing a Hypothesis - Part 02
  • mod05lec29 - Elements of Scientific Measurement - Part 01
  • mod05lec30 - Elements of Scientific Measurement - Part 02
  • mod06lec31 - The Central Limit Theorem and its Applications - Part 01
  • mod06lec32 - The Central Limit Theorem and its Applications - Part 02
  • mod06lec33 - Error Bars and Confidence Interval - Part 01
  • mod06lec34 - Error Bars and Confidence Interval - Part 02
  • mod06lec35 - Measurement of a Proportion - Part 01
  • mod06lec36 - Measurement of a Proportion - Part 02
  • mod07lec37 - Examples of Proportion Measurement
  • mod07lec38 - Box and Whisker Plot
  • mod07lec39 - Propagation of Errors - Part 01
  • mod07lec40 - Propagation of Errors - Part 02
  • mod07lec41 - Issues in Hypothesis Testing - Part 01
  • mod07lec42 - Issues in Hypothesis Testing - Part 02
  • mod08lec43 - Statistical Methods in Hypothesis Testing: Z-Test and T-Test - Part 01
  • mod08lec44 - Statistical Methods in Hypothesis Testing: Z-Test and T-Test - Part 02
  • mod08lec45 - Hypothesis Testing: The Chi-Square Test - Part 01
  • mod08lec46 - Hypothesis Testing: The Chi-Square Test - Part 02
  • mod08lec47 - Hypothesis Testing: The Chi-Square Test - Part 03
  • mod08lec48 - Hypothesis Testing: The Chi-Square Test - Part 04
  • mod09lec49 - Theoretical Research: Functional Relationships from Experimental Data - Part 01
  • mod09lec50 - Theoretical Research: Functional Relationships from Experimental Data - Part 02
  • mod09lec51 - Theoretical Research: Mathematical Models of Physical Systems
  • mod09lec52 - Order of Magnitude Calculations
  • mod09lec53 - Theoretical Research: Modeling Using Dimensional Analysis - Part 01
  • mod09lec54 - Theoretical Research: Modeling Using Dimensional Analysis - Part 02
  • mod10lec55 - An Example of Mathematical Modeling
  • mod10lec56 - Importance of Theory-Building in Science
  • mod10lec57 - Scientific Writing: Journal Papers - Part 1
  • mod10lec58 - Scientific Writing: Journal Papers - Part 2
  • mod10lec59 - Scientific Writing: Journal Papers - Part 3
  • mod10lec60 - Scientific Writing: Journal Papers - Part 4
  • mod11lec61 - Scientific Writing: PhD Thesis
  • mod11lec62 - Scientific Writing: Text Stylistics
  • mod11lec63 - Presentation in Scientific Conferences - Part 01
  • mod11lec64 - Presentation in Scientific Conferences - Part 02
  • mod11lec65 - Writing Grant Proposals - Part 01
  • mod11lec66 - Writing Grant Proposals - Part 02
  • mod12lec67 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Aspects of Scientific Ethics
  • mod12lec68 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Research Misconduct
  • mod12lec69 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Ethics in Scientific Publication - Part 01
  • mod12lec70 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Ethics in Scientific Publication - Part 02
  • mod12lec71 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Cases of Scientific Misconduct - Part 01
  • mod12lec72 - Ethical Conduct in Science: Cases of Scientific Misconduct - Part 02
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