Scientific Style in English

Scientific Style in English aims to help students with the reading and writing of scientific and technical texts in English, with a particular focus on style, grammar and math. It can be used by students and professionals with basic or intermediate understanding of theEnglish language.

About the author

Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar, Thiago Tavares de Alencar

Summary

Style is a distinctive manner of expression, in writing or speech. The wordevolved from Latin stilus, an instrument for writing, marking, or incising,such as something used by the ancients in writing on clay or waxed tablets.It is the way in which something is said or done, as distinguished fromits substance. Style is also a convention with respect to spelling, punctuation,capitalization, and typographic arrangement and display followed in writingor printing.Scientific Style in English aims to help students with the reading and writing of scientific and technical texts in English, with a particular focus on style, grammar and math. It can be used by students and professionals with basic or intermediate understanding of theEnglish language.Technical topics discussed in the book include: ¿ Scientific Style in English¿ Mathematical Style in English¿ Technical Style¿ Stylistic Problems in English¿ How to write Theses and Dissertations

Product details

• Authors: Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar, Thiago Tavares de Alencar
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.2024
• EAN: 9788770044110
• ISBN: 978-87-7004-411-0
• No. of pages: 154
• Weight: 285 g
• Illustrations: Farb., s/w. Abb.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics