Many foreign authors find it difficult to produce an English manuscript for international journals in a style acceptable for publication. If the language is poor, difficult to understand, or includes major faults, the paper is often deemed unacceptable because it would require considerable editing . What is more, a weak style of the manuscript may cast a shadow on the scientific soundness of its results and the fairness of its discussion and conclusions.
To learn the essentials of technical writing that are needed to produce a scientific text in English.
The video lectures address the common grammatical errors of morphology and syntax that are often encountered while editing manuscripts written by Italian authors. Specific areas include the use of pronouns, punctuation and dangling participles. Next come specific issues of technical writing, such as abbreviations, units of measure, and choice of standard scientific terms. A video lecture is dedicated to the different types of scientific publications and the logical sequence of presentation of the work done in the sections of the article. Finally, practical examples of text editing are used to deal with finer points of style, such as how to organize the text in paragraphs, and how to avoid redundancy, elegant variation, or ambiguous phrasing.
Video lectures, additional resources
Scientific Writing, Grammar, and Style
Scientific Journals
Layout of a Scientific Article
Grammar
Sentence Fragments
Comma Splice
Colons & Semicolons
Hyphen
Fahrenheit vs Celsius
British vs American Spelling
Units of Measurement
Style
All the teaching material is in Aulaweb
March 2017
Multiple-choice test
