Includes bibliographical references (p.309 -314) and index.

Part I Writing Skills; Chapter 1: Planning and Preparation; Chapter 2: Word Order; Chapter 3: Breaking Up Long Sentences; Chapter 4: Structuring Paragraphs and Sentences; Chapter 5: Being Concise and Removing Redundancy; Chapter 6: Avoiding Ambiguity and Vagueness; Chapter 7: Clarifying Who Did What; Chapter 8: Highlighting Your Findings; Chapter 9: Hedging and Criticising; Chapter 10: Paraphrasing and Plagiarism; Part II Sections of a Paper; Chapter 11: Titles; Chapter 12: Abstracts; Chapter 13: Introduction

Chapter 14: Review of the LiteratureChapter 15: Methods; Chapter 16: Results; Chapter 17: Discussion; Chapter 18: Conclusions; Chapter 19: Useful Phrases; Chapter 20: The Final Check; Links and References; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Contact the Author; Index;

Publishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English usage. It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-native authors, 500 abstracts by PhD students, and over 1000 hours of teaching researchers how to write and present research papers. With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and with examples taken from published and unpublished papers, you will learn