Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals - Brossura

Day, Robert A.; Sakaduski, Nancy

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ISBN 10: 0313391947 ISBN 13: 9780313391941

Casa editrice: Greenwood, 2011

Riassunto

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

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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.

Product Description:

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 writing in the science, 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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Greenwood
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0313391947
• ISBN 13: 9780313391941
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 248