Overview: Contains examples from around 5000 real-life papers.Covers problematic word groups, such as rise, arise, raise.All exercises have a key, with detailed explanations where appropriate.This book is based on a study of referees‘ reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English (long sentences, redundancy, poor structure etc.). It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-native authors, around 3000 emails, 500 abstracts by PhD students, and over 1500 hours of teaching re
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