Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals
Robert A. Day
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Greenwood
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313391941
SKU
V9780313391941
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About Robert A. Day
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.
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