English for Writing Research Papers (Paperback, 2)

PART 1. WRITING SKILLS.- 1. Planning and Preparation.- 2. Structuring a sentence: word order.- 3. Structuring Paragraphs.- 4. Breaking Up Long Sentences.- 5. Being Concise and Removing Redundancy.- 6. Avoiding ambiguity, repetition, and vague language.- 7. Clarifying Who Did What.- 8. Highlighting Your Findings.- 9. Discussing your limitations.- 10. Hedging and Criticising.- 11. Plagiarism and Paraphrasing.- PART 2. SECTIONS OF A PAPER.- 12. Titles.- 13. Abstracts.- 14. Introduction.- 15. Review of the Literature.- 16. Methods.- 17. Results.- 18. Discussion.- 19. Conclusions.- 20. The Final Check.