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Adverbs
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Grammar
Kinds of Writing
Nouns and Pronouns
Person
Phrases
Prefixes and Suffixes
Prepositions
Principles of Punctuation
Principles of Scientific Writing
Problem Words and Expressions
Punctuation
Redundancies and Jargon
Sentence and Paragraph Structure
Verbs
Voice
Words and Expressions to Avoid
Writing for Electronic Media
Writing Style
Product details
- ISBN 9780313391736
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2011
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Robert A. Day is professor emeritus at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE.
Nancy Sakaduski is a writer and consultant based in Chadds Ford, PA.
