This book isbased on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors onreasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due toproblems with English (long sentences, redundancy, poor structure etc). Itdraws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-nativeauthors, around 3000 emails, 500 abstracts by PhD students, and over 1000 hoursof teaching researchers how to write and present research papers. The exercisesare organized into nine chapters on: adjectives and adverbs (e.g. actual vscurrent, different vs several, continually vs continuously), link words (e.g.on the contrary vs on the other hand, despite vs nevertheless), nouns (e.g.danger vs hazard, measure vs measurement), prepositions (e.g. among vs between,in vs into, with vs within), verbs (e.g. check vs control, compose vs comprise,arise vs raise, exclude vs rule out), false friends and synonyms, spelling,useful phrases, emails Nearly all exercises require no actual writing butsimply choosing between various options, thus facilitating self-study,e-reading and rapid progress. The exercises can also be integrated into Englishfor Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Special Purposes (ESP) courses atuniversities and research institutes. The book can be used in conjunction withthe other exercise books in the series: English for Academic Research: WritingExercises English for Academic Research: Grammar Exercises。
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