Written English: A Guide for Electrical and Electronic Students and Engineers

Written English: A Guide for Electrical and Electronic Students and Engineers

by Steve Hart
Written English: A Guide for Electrical and Electronic Students and Engineers

Written English: A Guide for Electrical and Electronic Students and Engineers

by Steve Hart

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Overview

A research paper or graduate essay demonstrating weak English and poor formatting is likely to be rejected by an editor or marked down by an assessor; but why should these gaps in your English knowledge undermine your subject knowledge and skill as an engineer or student of the discipline?

Written English: A Guide for Electrical and Electronic Students and Engineers is the first resource to work at the sentence level to resolve the English language problems facing international engineering students and scholars. Informed by hundreds of research papers and student essays, this valuable reference:

  • Covers grammar essentials and key terms in the fields of electrical engineering, electronic engineering, and communication systems
  • Uses real-world examples to reveal common mistakes and identify critical areas of focus
  • Provides practical solutions to formatting, vocabulary, and stylistic issues

Written English: A Guide for Electrical and Electronic Students and Engineers equips readers with the necessary knowledge to produce accurate and effective English when writing for engineering.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781351830010
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication date: 12/19/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 216
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Steve Hart has been editing and proofreading for international academics and graduate students of engineering since 2005. A former high school teacher with a background in sociolinguistics, he has written grammar guides for the Indian market and produced coursebooks for several academies in the United Kingdom. He is currently English Skills Coordinator at a higher education institution in Cambridge, England.

Table of Contents

Nouns. Articles. Pronouns and quantifiers. Subject/verb agreement. Verbals. The verb ‘to be.’ Modal verbs. Phrasal verbs. Adjectives and adverbs. Prepositions. Clauses. Prefixes. Style: Clarity and brevity. Style: Voice and verb choice. Tense. Time and duration. Titles. Spelling form. Capitalization. Colons, parentheses, dashes. Figures and tables. Numbers and units. Equations. Referencing.

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