English for Academic Research: Vocabulary Exercises

by Adrian Wallwork

This book is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English (long sentences, redundancy, poor structure etc). It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-native authors, around 3000 emails, 500 abstracts by PhD students, and over 1000 hours of teaching researchers how to write and present research...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461442672
• ISBN13: 9781461442677
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"