This book is designed to enable non-native English speakers to write science research for publication in English. It is a practical, user-friendly book intended as a fast, do-it-yourself guide for those whose English language proficiency is above intermediate. The approach is based on material developed from teaching graduate students at Imperial College London and has been ext...
This book is designed to enable non-native English speakers to write science research for publication in English. It is a practical, user-friendly book intended as a fast, do-it-yourself guide for those whose English language proficiency is above intermediate. The approach is based on material developed from teaching graduate students at Imperial College London and has been extensively piloted. The book guides the reader through the process of writing science research and will also help with writing a Master's or Doctoral thesis in English. Science writing is much easier than it looks because the structure and language are conventional. The aim of this book is to help the reader discover a template or model for science research writing and then to provide the grammar and vocabulary tools needed to operate that model. There are five units: Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion/Conclusion and Abstract. The reader develops a model for each section of the research article through sample texts and exercises; this is followed by a Grammar and Writing Skills section designed to respond to frequently-asked questions as well as a Vocabulary list including examples of how the words and phrases are to be used.
If you describe all your results in equal detail they will seem to have the same level of importance. This is unlikely to be the case: some of your results are probably more significant than others, some are typical, and some are key results whereas others may be of more peripheral interest. However, your sentences are, in the end, simply black lines on a white page — the reader cannot hear your voice and so cannot hear you emphasising the importance of a particular result. You cannot print it in red and, as we have seen, you cannot even use an exclamation mark. So choosing to describe a specific result in detail communicates to your reader that you consider that particular result to be significant, worth highlighting or emphasising. (查看原文)
There are some grammar issues that are worth noting. When you use key words in constructing the title, be careful about creating complex compound nouns. The conciseness of a compound noun is very tempting for non-native writers and English has a high level of tolerance for such nouns, but make sure that the compound noun can be understood without ambiguity. Note that the noun on the right-hand side of a compound noun is the ‘real’ noun and any noun or nouns to the left of it have adjectival function in the sense that they modify the right-hand noun. Also note that the relationship between the nouns that make up a compound noun may include options you had not considered:
• an oil can is a can which may contain oil ….or it may be empty, but its normal use is to contain oil
• an oil can ope... (查看原文)
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0 有用 机动美少年高興 2019-07-28 15:32:01
宝藏！排版能进一步加强就更好了，比如彩色字体、comment 区块之类的～（O'Reilly 风格看习惯了就离不开了……
0 有用 Sheep Black 2015-10-01 14:17:14
好实在的论文写作教程
0 有用 马牛 2014-12-09 01:26:15
得多写，练习里面的模板。写完了得找老美改改。
0 有用 晚城书童 2023-12-20 06:58:23 意大利
后悔读晚了
0 有用 实现GCZY 2023-10-26 13:07:38 广东
据说是为非英语为母语国家写的书？
0 有用 筱晗 2024-05-17 09:22:55 上海
真的是神书！框架特别清晰！细节特别具体！
0 有用 xx-_- 2024-04-19 16:59:13 德国
bible一般的存在。打算待会写论文就把它放在旁边
0 有用 要上南大的晚祥 2024-04-07 16:44:44 四川
嗯，不错，sehr gut
0 有用 头像不是本人 2024-01-10 21:41:03 北京
每章都有词汇、例文和习题，除此之外就是些语法、时态什么的，内容不多。教新手如何包装自己的文章。
0 有用 bridgehead 2024-01-03 16:19:54 北京
很有指导意义，而且方便实践