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    Write Research Right!: The EFL Writer's Step-by-Step Guide to a Publishable Research Paper
    Write Research Right!: The EFL Writer's Step-by-Step Guide to a Publishable Research Paper
    Write Research Right!: The EFL Writer's Step-by-Step Guide to a Publishable Research Paper
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    Write Research Right!: The EFL Writer's Step-by-Step Guide to a Publishable Research Paper

    By Terry Waltz, Ph.D.

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    Do you fear writing research papers in English because of the endless editing process? Was your English class all about writing letters and nothing about writing up experimental results? Fear no more! In Write Research Right, Terry Waltz takes you step by step through the process of organizing and writing up a publishable research paper in English. From the parts of a professional research paper, to what content belongs where, through writing reliable statements of results, expressing statistical relationships, and the all-important "hedging", this book provides the information and practical excercises that will help you take your English research papers to the next level -- to an A+ in class, or into a journal!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSquid For Brains
    Release dateJan 25, 2015
    ISBN9781507099155
    Write Research Right!: The EFL Writer's Step-by-Step Guide to a Publishable Research Paper
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    Terry Waltz, Ph.D.

    Terry Waltz is formerly an Associate Professor at Taipei Medical University in Taiwan, where she taught courses in all aspects of professional and scientific English, including a popular Research Writing course. She currently lives and writes in upstate New York, where she concentrates on innovative, practical materials for learners of various languages.

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    Write Research Right! - Terry Waltz, Ph.D.

    Introduction

    English is the language of science all over the world. No matter what your native language is, if you want a lot of other scientists to know what your results are, you will have to write a paper in English to share that information with them.

    Most students of English who study science are pretty good at reading English. They can get information out of a research study written in English. But when it is time to go in the other direction, they have problems. They don’t know how to take their own ideas and organize them into a professional English research paper.

    There is good news, though! Research papers in English are very predictable. They are almost always the same. Some are long and some are short, but the way they are organized and the kind of information in each section are always the same.

    This book will guide you, step by step, through the process of writing an English research paper. We will start with some silly papers that are not real. However, we will use the same organization and the same contents that you need for a professional research paper. The only difference is how much information you include and how much detail is in the paper.

    Our practice papers will be simple, but if you understand how to write these simple research papers, you will easily write more complicated ones.

    This book is written in English. It is useful for any student who wants to learn to write a research paper in English. This book will not teach you English, but it will point out some of the most important grammar points you need to know to write a good research paper.

    Writing a good English research paper is a special skill. However, anyone can learn this skill. Read all the research papers you can find in your field, so that you will have the sound of research in your head, but always use each of the steps in this book, in order, to make sure your paper has all the things it needs. If you learn the basic way to write a paper, you will be able to add your own facts and write any research paper you need, throughout your professional career.

    Writing in English: A Quick Review

    Write in English

    Writing in a foreign language can be very difficult.  It takes a lot of  time.  It can be very frustrating, too.  You can easily say things in your native language, but even after spending a few hours and maybe asking some friends to help, your English paper still has a lot of red marks on it!  After all that work, the English still sounds Chinese-like – it is Chinglish. (Of course, that only happens if you are Chinese! If you speak Spanish, your English writing will probably sound like Spanish writing. It happens to everyone, no matter what his native language is. In this book, I’m going to pretend that everyone who wants to write a research paper is Chinese.)

    How can you avoid this problem?  One good way is NOT to write anything in Chinese first!!  (Or any other language. Remember?) Many students write papers in Chinese first, because it is easy.  Later, they translate the papers into English.  However, the way we write in English is very different from the way we write in Chinese.  Many things in Chinese have no exact partner in English.  This kind of  translation sounds very awkward.  In many cases, a person who is reading the paper cannot understand the meaning unless he can also speak Chinese.

    So,  DO NOT WRITE IN CHINESE!!!

    (or Spanish...or any other language except English!)

    Written English and Spoken English

    The way we speak English and the way we write in English are different.  That is true in Chinese, too. Kids who go to school in China or Taiwan have to learn formal written Chinese. It is very different from speaking Chinese. This is true in Arabic, too, and in many other languages.

    Written English and spoken English are also different.  Written English, especially in

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