... be
normalized”). SWAN displays all the sentences
which could potentially break the fluidity (Fig. 2)
and suggests ways of rewriting them.
Figure 2: Fluidity evaluation result in SWAN.
4 The SWAN Tool
4.1 ... Association for Computational Linguistics
SWAN – Scientific Writing AssistaNt
A Tool for Helping Scholars to Write Reader-Friendly Manuscripts
http://cs.joensuu.fi /swan/
Tomi Kinnunen
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Henri Leisma ... help scholars identify and correct poten-
tial writing problems, we introduce SWAN
(Scientific Writing AssistaNt) tool. SWAN
is a rule-based system that gives feedback
based on various quality metrics...
... scientists will find some new
tips to help them refine their writing skills.
Introduction
xi
Scientific Writing
Easy when you know how
Scientific Writing
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Processing feedback 109
Checklists and instructions ... who
knows”. Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who
believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have
to make speeches. Just believing is enough.
Stephen King
5
Scientific writing is ... published statistics about journal shopping
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Contents
vii
Eliminating fog 192
Say what you mean 195
Word order 197
Creating flow 199
Tight writing 202
Chopping up snakes 206
Parallel...
... Simon and Schuster, 1994; p 32–43.
5 King S. On writing: A memoir of the craft. London: Scribner, 2000; p 74.
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1: Scientific writing
What is written without effort is in general ... pending
excitement of the weekend distracting and thus prefer to
begin writing refreshed on a Monday. Some people who are
Scientific writing
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Making it happen
“Do it every day for a while” ... in scientific
knowledge and improvements in patient care, or may simply
Scientific Writing
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since their inception and are now widely adopted by the
majority of medical journals. If you are writing...
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Ping-che Yang
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Mei-hua Chen
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Hung-ting ... ngrams to generate subsequent
grammar and translation predictions. We
present a prototype writing assistant,
TransAhead
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, that applies the method to
where computer-assisted translation and ... browsers.
providing the automated translation. A good
learning environment might comprise a writing
assistant that gives the user direct control over
the target text and offers text and grammar...
... 24
2.3 STRATEGIES IN SCIENTIFICWRITING 28
2.4 MOTHER TONGUE AND SCIENTIFICWRITING 33
2.5 WRITING STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE 36
2.6 THE COGNITIVE ASPECT OF SCIENTIFICWRITING 38
2.7 TEACHING ... et al., 2003).
2.2 THE NEED FOR SCIENTIFICWRITING
Communication lecturers at university teach basic and generic writing skills but not
necessarily scientificwriting skills. This practice that ... purposes
in order to identify and establish problems and trends in scientificwriting so as to
become familiar with the scientificwriting skills of ESL students in first year Life
Sciences. Semantic...
... some new results to publish and
you need to be able to interpret them correctly.
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Scientific Writing
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lateral thinking, it is not helpful for the expedient reporting of
your ... pending
excitement of the weekend distracting and thus prefer to
begin writing refreshed on a Monday. Some people who are
Scientific writing
7
Getting started
23
Instructions to authors
A basic rule ... may have
a driving force to contribute to advancements in scientific
knowledge and improvements in patient care, or may simply
Scientific Writing
2
Table 2.2 CONSORT checklist of items to include...
...
exposure to English might interrupt their writing
flow (Silva, 1993). Numerous writing instructions
have been proposed (Kroll, 1990) as well as
writing handbooks have been available for
learners. ... this paper, we presented FLOW, an interactive
writing assistance system, aimed at helping EFL
writers compose and revise without interrupting
their writing flow. First-language-oriented and
context-sensitive ... are expected to improve EFL
writers’ writing performance.
In future work, we will conduct experiments to
gain a deeper understanding of EFL writers’
writing improvement with the help of FLOW,...
... Soc 145: 555–563, 2001.
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Crossing the knowledge chasm between ... English — the Queen’s English,
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guess how wide the gap is, you will ... Science is built on science,
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roof, so to speak. Storing...
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Emotion & modesty in scientific
writing
Addressed to writers for whom
English is a second or foreign
language
Further reading
Preface
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... of Union in Irish and English writing
In performing this gesture, Hewitt’s stranger acknowledges the implica-
tion of one place, one history, in another.
For Padel, writing from another position, ... hardest
responsibility.
Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing
Susan Morgan argues in her study of Victorian women’s travel
writings about Southeast Asia that ‘‘the very notion of what ... characteristically middle-class
Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing
ALLEGORIES OF UNION
IN IRISH AND
ENGLISH WRITING,
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Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to...