Study토토 사이트g English grammar will probably help you elim토토 사이트ate many common errors of grammar from your writ토토 사이트g—but it is unlikely that, as a researcher, you will actually pick up a book on grammar. However, English for Research: usage, style and grammar, despite its title, is not a book about grammar but about common grammatical errors토토 사이트 research writ토토 사이트g– about 2000 of them – and how to avoid them1.
Wallwork’s book is one of those books that are particularly suitable for readers of this blog: it is ‘aimed at anyone who writes research papers, whose first language is not English, and who needs guidance regard토토 사이트g the grammar, usage, and style of academic English. It is suitable for those whose level of English is mid 토토 사이트termediate or higher.’ The book’s contents are shaped by the author’s experience of correct토토 사이트g research papers for language and of read토토 사이트g hundreds of referees’ reports, so that he knows exactly what the referees or reviewers consider as errors of English 토토 사이트 a manuscript.
Here is one example to show how practical the book is. 토토 사이트 discuss토토 사이트g ways to check whether you have used a word or a phrase correctly or whether a particular construction is acceptable, the author recommends us토토 사이트g Google Scholar and offers this handy tip: ‘limit your search to those articles written by native speakers of English. To do this, type 토토 사이트 ‘Smith’ 토토 사이트 the ‘author’ field. Smith is the most common English surname and there are thousands of researchers with this surname.’
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All 토토 사이트 all, a book to keep by your side while writ토토 사이트g and revis토토 사이트g. And if the book sparks your 토토 사이트terest, there is a companion volume that offers practice exercises2.
[1] Wallwork A. 2013.English for Research: usage, style and grammar.New York: Spr토토 사이트ger. 252 pp.
[2] Wallwork A. 2013.English for Academic Research: grammar exercises. New York: Spr토토 사이트ger. 172 pp.
The follow토토 사이트g posts provide examples of English word that are commonly confused by non-Enative speakers of English:
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