Description
This book is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English (long sentences, redundancy, poor structure etc.). The exercises in this new edition are organized into twelve chapters on:punctuation and spellingword orderwriting short sentences and paragraphslink words - connecting phrases and sentences togetherbeing concise and removing redundancyambiguity and political correctnessparaphrasing and avoiding plagiarismdefining, comparing, evaluating and highlightinganticipating possible objections, indicating level of certainty, discussing limitations, hedging, future workusing Large Language Models for writing papers, emails and presentation scriptsSome exercises require no actual writing but simply choosing between various options. In those exercises where extended writing is required, model answers are given. The exercises can also be integrated into English for A