English for Writing Research Papers (English for Academic Research)

Publishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide is based on a study of over 1000 manuscripts and reviewers' reports revealing why papers written by non-native researchers are often rejected due to problems with English usage and poor structure and content. With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and examples taken from published and unpublished papers, you will learn how to:prepare and structure a manuscriptincrease readability and reduce the number of mistakes you make in English by writing concisely, with no redundancy and no ambiguitywrite a title and an abstract that will attract attention and be readdecide what to include in the various parts of the paper (Introduction, Methodology, Discussion etc)highlight your claims and contributionavoid plagiarismdiscuss the limitations of your researchchoose the correct tenses and stylesatisfy the requirements of editors and reviewersThis edition has two completely new chapters covering machine translation and using AI tools (e.g. chatbots, paraphrasers, editing tools) to improve and correct the English of a text.Other titles in this series:Grammar, Usage and StyleGrammar, Vocabulary, and Writing Exercises (three volumes)100 Tips to Avoid Mistakes in Academic Writing and PresentingEnglish for Presentations at International ConferencesEnglish for Academic Correspondence English for Interacting on Campus English for Academic CVs, Resumes, and Online Profiles English for Academic Research: A Guide for TeachersAdrian Wallwork is the author of more than 40 English Language Teaching (ELT) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhDstudents and researchers from 50 countries to write papers. He edits research manuscripts through his own proofreading and editing agency. Read more