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Scientific English
A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals
Robert A. Day, Nancy Sakaduski
- 248 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Scientific English
A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals
Robert A. Day, Nancy Sakaduski
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
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Principles of Scientific Writing
- 2: Kinds of Writing
- 3: Writing Style
- 4: The English Language
- 5: Grammar
- 6: Words
- 7: Name Words (Nouns and Pronouns)
- 8: Action Words (Verbs)
- 9: Descriptive Words (Adjectives, Adverbs, and Articles)
- 10: Function Words (Conjunctions, Prepositions, and Interjections)
- 11: Prefixes and Suffixes
- 12: Redundancies and Jargon
- 13: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms
- 14: Phrases
- 15: Clauses
- 16: Sentences
- 17: Paragraphs
- 18: Voice, Person, and Tense
- 19: Punctuation
- 20: Writing for Electronic Media
- Glossary
- Appendix 1: Principles of Punctuation Presented Plainly
- Appendix 2: Problem Words and Expressions
- Appendix 3: Words and Expressions to Avoid
- Notes
- Index