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Scientific English

Robert A. Day, Nancy Sakaduski
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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.Includes cartoons and humorous illustrations that help reinforce important conceptsProvides a glossary that allows readers to easily reference the meanings of grammatical terms used in the bookIncorporates a wide variety of quotations to provide humor, make points, or reinforce key conceptsIncludes an entire chapter on electronic media as well as new material on self-editing
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Robert A. Day, Nancy Sakaduski EAN: 9780313391941 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: ABC-CLIO DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-06-16 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Publishers & Publishing Industry WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      English, Writing and editing guides

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      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.
      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 conceptsProvides a glossary that allows readers to easily reference the meanings of grammatical terms used in the bookIncorporates a wide variety of quotations to provide humor, make points, or reinforce key conceptsIncludes an entire chapter on electronic media as well as new material on self-editing
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      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.

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