Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals

by Nancy Sakaduski and Robert A. Day

Book Overview

This entertaining and highly readable book gives anyone writing in the sciences a clear and easy-to-follow guide to the English language.

English 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. Scientific English: A Guide for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313391947
• ISBN13: 9780313391941
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years