Scientific English - A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals, 3rd Edition (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)

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. 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

General

Imprint:	Greenwood Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2011
First published:	June 2011
Authors:	Robert A. Day • Nancy Sakaduski
Dimensions:	156 x 243 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	225
Edition:	3rd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-39173-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > Technical writing Promotions
LSN:	0-313-39173-4
Barcode:	9780313391736

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