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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.
Features
Includes cartoons and humorous illustrations that help reinforce important concepts
Provides a glossary that allows readers to easily reference the meanings of grammatical terms used in the book
Incorporates a wide variety of quotations to provide humor, make points, or reinforce key concepts
Includes an entire chapter on electronic media as well as new material on self-editing
Highlights
Provides essential and invaluable information for anyone doing any kind of scientific writing, regardless of topic
Presents potentially dry information in an understandable and entertaining way, making it enjoyable to read and perfect as a textbook
Provides insights that are especially useful for scientists whose primary language is not English while also containing helpful information for native speakers
Serves as the perfect companion book to How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
Robert A. Day, Nancy Sakaduski Scientific English A Guide for Scientists and Oth.pdf
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