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Writing an Academic Paper in English

Intermediate Level

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Overview

  • Insights based on 30 years experience editing papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals
  • Exercises based on 1000+ hours of teaching scientific English and English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
  • Simple, practical, informative, and fun

Part of the book series: English for Academic Research (EAR)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

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About this book

This book is for university students, with at least a mid-intermediate level of English.

It can be used as part of an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course, either alone or with the companion volume Giving an Academic Presentation in English.

The chapters are independent so that EAP teachers and students can choose those sections that best fit their needs. This means that a course can range from a minimum of 20 hours, up to 60 hours or more.

There is an introductory chapter that includes what role academics play in today’s world, where success is not just measured in terms of paper output but also involvement in interdisciplinary projects and supporting society at large.

Each chapter covers a particular section of a paper (Abstract, Introduction, Methods etc) and begins with a discussion exercise on what the exact purpose of each section is. This purpose is also highlighted by comparisons with non-academic situations where similar skills are required. There are many examples and templates – none of which are lengthy or complex - but which are designed to highlight key points.

Students learn what style to adopt (we vs impersonal), the correct tenses to use in each section, typical mistakes, and useful phrases.

The course is highly practical and is also designed to be fun to use.

Other books in the series:

Giving an Academic Presentation in English

Essential English Grammar and Communication Strategies

 

Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 40 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and researchers from around 50 countries to write research papers and give presentations. He is also the co-founder of e4ac.com, an editing agency for non-native English-speaking researchers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • English for Academics, Pisa, Italy

    Adrian Wallwork

About the author

Adrian Wallwork is the co-founder of English for Academics (e4ac.com), which specializes in editing and revising scientific papers, as well as teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) to PhD students. He has written course books for Oxford University Press, discussion books for Cambridge University Press, and other books for BEP and Scholastic and several publishers in Italy. Adrian also self-publishes discussion books for the TEFL market (tefldiscussions.com). 

For SpringerNature, he has written three series of books on Academic English, Business English and General English.

His passion is teaching PhD students and researchers how to write and present their research

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Writing an Academic Paper in English

  • Book Subtitle: Intermediate Level

  • Authors: Adrian Wallwork

  • Series Title: English for Academic Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95615-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95614-1Published: 26 June 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95615-8Published: 25 June 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2625-3445

  • Series E-ISSN: 2625-3453

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 200

  • Number of Illustrations: 174 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Linguistics, general, Language Education

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