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

by Steve Hart

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:	9781498739627
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/02/2015
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

"This is the perfect reference for an international audience. In addition, this is a text that one would want on his or her shelf as an undergraduate, through graduate school, and into one’s professional career."
—William Magrino, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA

"… provides many good examples (with errors and with corrections), covers some of the most common errors, and employs a design throughout, making it easy for readers to review the information quickly."
—Dan Jones, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

"... useful for beginner non-native English writers, such as international graduate students. ... covers many of the most common mistakes made by beginner writers."
—Agung Julius, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

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