100 tips to avoid mistakes in academic writing and presenting / Adrian Wallwork, Anna Southern.
This book contains one hundred typical mistakes relating to papers, proposals, oral presentations, and correspondence with editors (e.g. journal submissions), reviewers (rebuttal letters), and editing agencies. The book is primarily intended for non-native English speaking researchers. However, it i...
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Introduction to the Book
- Who is this book for?
- What kinds of written mistakes does the book focus on?
- How is the book structured?
- Free downloadable materials
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Research Papers: Titles and Abstracts
- 1 Whole paper: Concentrate above all on readability
- grammar is generally less important.
- 2 Titles: Ensure your title as specific as possible. Delete unnecessary words.
- 3 Titles: Avoid 'clever' titles.
- 4 Abstracts: Be concise
- especially in the first sentence.
- 5 Abstracts: Don't begin the abstract with non key words
- 6 Abstracts: Make it clear why the purpose of your investigation is important.
- 7 Abstracts: Clearly differentiate between the state-of-the-art and what you did in your research.
- 8 Structured Abstracts
- Background: Be careful of tense usage.
- 9 Abstracts: When writing a single paragraph, write it like a'structured abstract'.
- 10 Abstract and Introduction: Avoid the word'attempt' and avoid making bold statements beginning with 'this is the first ... "".
- Chapter 2: Research Papers: Introduction and Literature Review
- 11 Introduction: Avoid information that readers will already be very familiar with.
- 12 Introduction: Describe the structure of your paper in a way that enables readers to navigate the paper easily.
- 13 Review of the literature: prioritize clarity over consistency when deciding what tense to use.
- 14 Review of the Literature and Discussion: Think about whether the first few words of a sentence add value for the reader or not. Be as concise as possible.
- 15 Review of the literature and Discussion: Delete all unnecessary verbs.
- Chapter 3 Research Papers: Methods, Results, Tables
- 16 Methods: Use the past to describe what you did, but use the present to describe any protocols / regulations / typical steps.
- 17 Methods: Be careful to use the right tense in a which clause when a series of steps are being described.
- 18 Methods: Indicate the sequence of steps by putting firstly, secondly, finally etc at the beginning of the sentences.
- 19 Methods: Put the steps in chronological order. Put dates at the beginning
- 20 Results: Ensure the reader understands whether you are talking about your results or what has already been established by others. Generally speaking, use the past tense to report your results.
- 21 Results: Do not write long descriptions of your results if these could easily be put in a table. And do not repeat information that is clearly shown in a table, instead interpret it.
- 22 Tables: Use the simple present to describe what the table does, and the past to discuss what the table shows.
- 23 Tables: In captions, and when referring to figures and tables, use the least words possible.