ESL Science and Medical Writing Tips: Recent Episodes
Thressa Smith ESL writing tips
How to improve the writing in your science and medical papers to increase your chances of publication
Are you writing follow-up with a hyphen between follow and up because that is how you have seen it written most often, so hopefully that is correct? But did you wonder why you also see follow up without the hyphen? Maybe that is correct? The answer is that both can be correct. It depends on the context in which the phrase is being used. This podcast explains when to use hyphens between two words that are normally separate.
This podcast describes how to write a clear, concise, complete, and accurate summary of the contents of your paper, and it offers 10 additional tips to increase your chances of publication. A research abstract is extremely important for two reasons: first, it is the only part of a paper that most people will read; second, it may be your best chance to convince a journal editor that your work is a good fit for the journal and that your findings are sufficiently important to send your paper out for peer review.
Authors are always asking how they can increase their publication rate. Even with both well-conducted research and a well-written paper, your manuscript can be returned to you by the journal editor without ever being sent out for peer review. Why? Because it failed the journal’s precheck steps. Here are 4 tips to ensure that your paper passes the journal’s prechecks and moves on to the peer review stage.
This podcast explains where (and why) to use the past or the present tense (or the present perfect tense) of verbs in each part of a research paper. For example, should the Results section always be in the past tense? Which verb tense is correct for Figure Legends or Subheadings? Did you know that verb tenses can change within the same sentence? Even native-English authors of medical and science papers get the answers to these questions wrong!
写论文时不同的部分应该使用了哪个动词时态
这节播客讲解在研究论文的不同部分中使用动词的过去时或现在时（或现在完成时）的位置（和原因）。例如，结果部分是否应该总是使用过去时态呢？图例或副标题应该使用什么时态？您又知不知道：其实动词时态是可以在同一个句子中改变的？在医学和科学论文界里，即使是一些以英语为母语的作者也会错误地回答这些问题！
When do you use indefinite articles, and which one do you use? There are two indefinite articles in English: “a” and “an." The word indefinite as related to grammar means something that has not been identified, is generic, or is an unfamiliar person or thing. You use an indefinite article when (1) you are introducing new information, (2) the reader does not know exactly which noun you are referring to, or (3) the noun is not unique.
写论文时如何在名词前使用“A”或“An”
何时应该使用不定冠词（indefinite articles）? 使用哪一个不定冠词呢？英语中有两个不定冠词：“a”和“an”。语法上来说, “不定”（“indefinite”）这个词意味着一些尚未被识别，通用的，或者是一个不熟悉的人或事物。在以下三种情况下使用不定冠词：（1）您正在引入新的信息；（2）读者并不确切地知道您指的是哪个名词；（3）这个名词不是唯一的。
There are 3 articles in English: a, an, and the. Articles are used before nouns to give context to that noun, meaning articles tell the reader how the noun is being used. But do all nouns in English have an article in front of them? Which of the three articles should be used before a noun, and when should they be used? This and the next podcast in this series will help you to understand this tricky subject.
写论文时如何在名词前面使用“The”
英文里有三个冠词（articles）：a，an和the。冠词是用在名词前, 为该名词指明含义的。意思是冠词告诉读者跟着的名词是怎样被使用的。但是，是不是所有英文名词的前面都有一个冠词呢？在名词之前应该使用三个冠词中的哪个呢? 什么时候使用呢？本系列中的这节播客以及下节播客将帮助您理解这个棘手的主题。
Here is a handy short list of uncountable nouns (which are always singular) and a few countable nouns that are always plural; both are commonly used in science and medical writing.
只有单数形式或者只有复数形式的名词
这节播客提供了一个简短名单 ，包括不可数名词（只有单数形式）和一些只有复数形式的可数名词。两者都常用于科学和医学写作。
Do you think using the words "evidences" or "researches" is grammatically correct English? Then listen to this podcast on "Countable vs Uncountable Nouns" to understand why they are NOT correct and to improve your science and medical writing.
可数名词与不可数名词
您认为使用“evidences”和“researches”在英语语法上是正确的吗？听听这个关于“可数名词与不可数名词”的播客。了解为什么它们是不正确的。从而改善您的科学和医学的英文写作能力。