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 ...
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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.
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B&W comic strips & charts. New. No Jacket Issued. Book CONDITION: UNREAD 1992 Oryx trade paperback, first edition, "assumed" first printing. B&W "comic" strips and charts illustrate. Very slight lift to fore-edge. CONTENT: No book on the English language is complete without some humor-we do speak an odd version of English. This book does have humor. CONTENT: This entertaining and highly readable book gives anyone writing in the sciences a clear and easy-to-follow guide to the English language. 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. Reviewer: "n excellent aid for scientists whose native tongue is not English, but also a useful aid for any person that wishes to improve their written English skills. I mostly like the witty fashion and simplicity in which is written. In fact, the main message from this textbook is that in simplicity lies the secret to adequately express your ideas, whichever is the language. Furthermore, it provides useful rules and hints for the proper use of expressions, words, adverbs, adjectives, etc. Mandatory! "
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