This study is set in a broad context of development of courses and computational tools to aid Brazilian graduate students in writing scientific papers in English. The main focus is on experimental research papers from the disciplines of physics, pharmaceutical and computer sciences. One of our primary objectives is to give students feedback and raise their awareness of the most typical lexical ...

This paper assesses the impact of publishing abstracts in English in the Portuguese Linguistics Association (APL) Proceedings from 2001 to 2010. The study was carried out with a corpus of 137 abstracts, follows a Text Linguistics model inspired by the Interactionnisme Sociodiscoursif and links text features to the social practices and genre repertoires of this community. Quantitative data show ...

PURPOSE A stepwise process for planning, writing, and submitting a research manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal is described. SUMMARY The research project and writing-related activities should be conducted concurrently along a clear timeline developed with input from all members of the writing team. Issues of conformance to standards of scholarly publishing (e.g., ordering of the author lis...

The paper focuses on the key issues Russian scientists face in process of writing abstracts English. undertaken study outlines practical solutions to such challenges. relies an overview previously published research literature subject, as well classification, generalisation, descriptive research, quantitative and frequency analysis. In order verify obtained data, corpus analysis was used. As a ...

Writing for a medical journal is an exciting moment because it represents the outcome and recognition of an ardous process. Only through a clear and through writing can a research be translated properly to clinical practice for the benefit of the patient community. Writing an article by an author and publishing an article by an editor are both key quality issues. Both of them should know the ex...

Every research paper's abstract briefly tells its story. Unfortunately, many writers produce a poor abstract, often in part looking like a table of contents, thereby lessening the chance of getting the research published and weakening its eventual impact too. This missive will help you improve your abstract reading and writing skills. First, you will reverse engineer an existing abstract, succi...

review articles are more considered because of special target groups, more citations and cheaper to do. this article is reviewing current evidence by choosing relevant ones through a narrative review article. it is going to provide an appropriate model and promotes the quality of review articles by focusing on the principles of writing them and also the common mistakes in this era.

Reactions to textual content posted in an online social network show different dynamics depending on the linguistic style and readability of the submitted content. Do similar dynamics exist for responses to scientific articles? Our intuition, supported by previous research, suggests that the success of a scientific article depends on its content, rather than on its linguistic style. In this art...

The journal article incubator approach to teaching writing skills to researchers and academics involves a series of engaging and inclusive workshops in which best practice writing, reviewing and rewriting skills are modelled by the presenters and practiced by the participants. This paper describes the design and operation of two incubator workshops conducted recently in Australia and South Afri...