Writing In English - A Practical Handbook for Scientific and Technical Writers.
Ещё одна книга для тех, кто хочет получить модную нынче профессию "технического писателя" (technical writer).
Это пособие написано в рамках проекта WPE - Writing Professional English (
http://www.kj.fme.vutbr.cz/leon2/index.html).
Содержание:
Types of writing - scientific articles, research papers, proposals
Composition - titles, planning your writing, paragraph writing, introductions, writing the main body, conclusions, sections of a research paper, describing tables and graphs, referencing, plagiarism, abstracts, summary writing
Style - objectivity, clarity, formality, hedging, signposting
Language functions - agreeing and disagreeing, classifying, comparing and contrasting, defining, emphasising, generalising, paraphrasing, quoting
Grammar - adverbs, articles, numbers, passive voice, punctuation, verb tenses, word order
Words - abbreviations, prefixes, suffixes
