Developing strategies to produce better scientific papers: a Recipe for non-native users of English
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چکیده
In this paper we introduce the AMADEUS strategy, which has been used to produce scientific writing tools for non-native users of English for 15 years, and emphasize a learnby-doing approach through which students and novice writers can improve their scientific writing. More specifically, we provide a 9-step recipe for the students to compile writing material according to a procedure that has proven efficient in scientific writing courses.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/cs/0611013 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006