English for Academic Research: Grammar, Usage and Style. 1st ed. 2013

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by Adrian Wallwork

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New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2013

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• Wallwork, Adrian.
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English for Academic Research ;

ISBN:

9781461415930 [1461415934]    

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Introduction -- 1. Nouns: plurals, countable vs uncountable -- 2. Genitive: the possessive form of nouns -- 3. Indefinite article: a / an -- 4. Definite article: the -- 5. Zero article: no article -- 6. Quantifiers: any, some, much, many, each, every etc -- 7. Relative pronouns: that, which, who, whose -- 8. Tenses: present, past, future -- 9. Conditional forms: zero, first, second, third -- 10. Passive vs active: impersonal vs personal forms -- 11. Imperative, infinitive, gerund (-ing form) -- 12. Modal verbs: can, may, could, should, must etc -- 13. Link words (adverbs and conjunctions): also, although, but etc -- 14. Adverbs and prepositions: already, yet, at, in, of etc -- 15. Sentence length, conciseness, clarity and ambiguity -- 16. Word order: nouns and verbs -- 17. Word order: adverbs -- 18. Word order: adjectives and past participles -- 19. Comparative and superlative: -er, -est, irregular forms -- 20. Measurements: abbreviations, symbols, use of articles -- 21. Numbers: words vs numerals, plurals, u
This guide is based on a study of referees’ reports and letters from journal editors on the reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English usage, style and grammar. It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-native authors, 500 abstracts by PhD students, and over 1000 hours of teaching researchers how to write and present research papers. English for Academic Research: Grammar, Usage and Style covers those areas of English usage that typically cause researchers difficulty: articles (a/an, the), uncountable nouns, tenses (e.g. simple present, simple past, present perfect), modal verbs, active vs. passive form, relative clauses, infinitive vs. -ing form, the genitive, noun strings, link words (e.g. moreover, in addition), quantifiers (e.g. each vs. every), word order, prepositions, acronyms, abbreviations, numbers and measurements, punctuation, and spelling. Due to its focus on the specific errors that repeatedly appear in papers wri

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