Scientific English
eBook - PDF

Scientific English

A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Scientific English

A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1: Principles of Scientific Writing
  6. 2: Kinds of Writing
  7. 3: Writing Style
  8. 4: The English Language
  9. 5: Grammar
  10. 6: Words
  11. 7: Name Words (Nouns and Pronouns)
  12. 8: Action Words (Verbs)
  13. 9: Descriptive Words (Adjectives, Adverbs, and Articles)
  14. 10: Function Words (Conjunctions, Prepositions, and Interjections)
  15. 11: Prefixes and Suffixes
  16. 12: Redundancies and Jargon
  17. 13: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms
  18. 14: Phrases
  19. 15: Clauses
  20. 16: Sentences
  21. 17: Paragraphs
  22. 18: Voice, Person, and Tense
  23. 19: Punctuation
  24. 20: Writing for Electronic Media
  25. Glossary
  26. Appendix 1: Principles of Punctuation Presented Plainly
  27. Appendix 2: Problem Words and Expressions
  28. Appendix 3: Words and Expressions to Avoid
  29. Notes
  30. Index