I am an English native speaker and technical editor specializing in helping native and non-native English speakers express themselves clearly on technical subjects in English, especially for journal publication. The journal peer review process can be daunting, particularly for non-native English speakers. While in Asia, particularly at Korea University, I helped many researchers secure publication in many journals. For family reasons I have now moved to the UK, and am still editing. Please see:
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Improving Flow in Academic Writing by expressing Logical Connections
Some words function as bridges between ideas. They are important for providing cohesion and coherence (flow) to connect ideas across your sentences and paragraphs.
The words in the table below can provide a signposted path for your readers through your writing.
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Summary Nouns in Research Papers
Useful for quickly referring to complicated concepts that have been previously mentioned in a text
What is a summary noun? Summary nouns are nouns that refer to previously discussed concepts.
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Appositives for Simple Conciseness in Academic Writing
Appositives allow the concise expression of information and can be used in academic writing to reduce wordiness.
What are appositives? They are nouns or noun phrases, usually with commas before and after, that describe the noun they follow.
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Parallelism for Clarity in Academic Writing
Parallelism can make your lists much clearer and more pleasant to read, especially in the case of lists of equivalent things.
Examples of sentences with and without parallelism Consider the pairs below.
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Misplaced Modifiers
Words modifying other words should be correctly positioned so that what they refer to is clear. Not doing so may confuse the reader and lead to miscommunication of ideas.
Misplaced modifiers cause ambiguity because exactly what they are describing is unclear.
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