English for Writing Research Papers (English for Academic Research) 2nd ed. 2016 Edition

For 4 years, I have used this book in teaching and working with master’s and PhD students and professors on publishing in English in international scholarly journals, along with several style guides and other materials. This is in a country where this activity is relatively new, the scholarly traditions are very different, and the style of the language makes translation not very successful. The book is both detailed and clear enough for those with at least an intermediate level of English, and it has given many of my students and colleagues the support and confidence needed to organize their content effectively and go ahead and write in English from the earliest stage. They especially appreciate part two on the sections of a paper, to put it mildly. Everything is addressed from the perspective of people who need to write in English who are not native speakers of it, which is unique and invaluable, although I’m quite sure that many of us native speakers could benefit by it too. I’m looking forward to working with the second edition in the coming academic year. My only caveat in regard to the second edition is that the discussion of the publishing process itself is brief, because the focus of the book is on English; people concerned with the whole process and the publishability of the actual content (choice of journal, avoiding predatory sources in research and publishing, international ethical guidelines for authors, getting to peer review, etc.) need to consult additional sources and also to consult style guidelines (APA, Chicago Manual of Style, and others) if required by a journal. Cheers to Mr. Wallwork for all his work in this and the other books in the series to help people get their voices heard.

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I have read several books about writing research papers and this book is the best to improve my English skills as well as to formulate my manuscript. In addition to contents in this book, English itself written by the author is also excellent and very easy to read, so it was helpful for writing my paper. So I recommend this book to anyone involved in scientific writing.

I read with much interest that little book. It is written in a gripping style, and we can read it without weariness. The usefulness of the content I have already checked several times. I do recommend it not only for beginners because even advanced users can also find within it very practical information.

There are several books on the market on how to write papers, however this is certainly the best one for non-native speakers and is the one I always recommend to my students.

As a native english speaker, I found the book helpful in improving my writing. The "Factoids" at the beginning of each chapter tend to make some incredible claims, with outdated (unavailable) web links to conservative think tanks as a source. For example, at the beginning of Chapter 17, the author seems to blame Rachel Carlson for causing the deaths of millions due to malaria. A review of sources available online support the view this argument is not merited, and that many of the harms of DDT to wildlife are real. In the same section, another factoids claims no relation between runaway global warming and the vanishing of polar ice.For a book about writing research papers, I would have thought the author would have used academic research, with proper citations, instead of some questionable news sources.