Overview
- Enables the speaker to think from the point-of-view of fellow interlocutors
- The book teaches how to write concisely with no redundancy and no ambiguity
- Helps the non-native speaker to understand native English speakers better
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Writing and Responding to Reviews
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Front Matter
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Telephone and Teleconference Calls
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Telephone And Teleconference Calls
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Dealing with Native English Speakers
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Dealing With Native English Speakers
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About this book
English for Academic Correspondence and Socializing is the first ever book of its kind specifically written for researchers of all disciplines whose first language is not English. With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and with authentic examples taken from real emails, referee's reports and cover letters, you will learn how to:
• use strategies for understanding native speakers of English
• significantly improve your listening skills
• organize one-to-one meetings
• feel confident at social events
• manage and participate in a successful conversation
• write effective emails
• review other people's manuscripts - formally and informally
• reply effectively and constructively to referees' reports
• write cover letters to editors
• use the telephone and Skype
• participate in (video) conference calls
• exploit standard English phrases
Other books in the series:
English for Presentations at International Conferences
English for Writing Research Papers
English for Research: Usage, Style, and Grammar
English for Academic Research: Grammar Exercises
English for Academic Research: Vocabulary Exercises
English for Academic Research: Writing Exercises
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This is a very useful tool for improving how your research papers are written. … The book can be read from start to end and then can be used as a reference. … book contains excerpts of published and unpublished papers, with the indications of mistakes and useful suggestions for improving the sentences. The book contains a lot of tips in how to please the referees of the papers. … I will definitely recommend this book, especially to Ph.D. students.” (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, bookinspections.wordpress.com, December, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: English for Academic Correspondence and Socializing
Authors: Adrian Wallwork
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9401-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-9401-1Published: 08 June 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 326
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education