{"product_id":"scientific-english-robert-a-day-9780313391941","title":"Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis entertaining and highly readable book gives anyone writing in the sciences a clear and easy-to-follow guide to the English language.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnglish is often regarded as one of the most difficult languages to master. Yet while the English language has a vocabulary of upwards of 500,000 words, it only uses nine parts of speech, and all of these words fall into one (or more) of those nine categories. \u003ci\u003e Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals, Third Edition\u003c\/i\u003e contains many simple revelations like this that make effective scientific writing in English easy, even for those whose fluency is in another language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book is organized around a basic guide to English grammar that is specifically tailored to the needs of scientists, science writers, science educators, and science students. The authors explain the goals of scientific writing, the role of style, and the various kinds of writing in the sciences, then provide a basic guide to the fundamentals of English and address problem areas such as redundancies, abbreviations and acronyms, jargon, and foreign terms. Email, online publishing, blogs, and writing for the Web are covered as well. This book is designed to be an enlightening and entertaining read that can then be retained as a practical scientific writing reference guide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Day, Nancy Sakaduski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0313391947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313391941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.35w x 0.74d","brand":"Robert Day","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988120502527,"sku":"9780313391941","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82e7b145-71e4-46d4-aec5-f1883bdcecd9.jpg?v=1683292738","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/scientific-english-robert-a-day-9780313391941","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}