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Subtleties of Scientific Style fills the gaps left by other style guides and books on editing. This book distils over two decades of experience, explaining subtle but significant errors that authors can make and many subtle tricks that can make a work more readable. Topics include:

• Achieving an editorial Gestalt
• Common errors—danglers, fillers, misapplied modifiers, shortcuts
• Errors of reasoning—begging the question, teleology, size comparisons
• Expression—first-person science, order of events, parallel narratives
• Tricky terms—applied, based on, due to, respectively

And two handy character charts for Macintosh- and Windows-based editors who are tired of hunting around for special characters.

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Writing Science in English is intended as a "how-to" guide for Japanese scientists who are required to write in English for publication. It is based on over 25 years of my experience working as a scientific editor with Japanese authors. It covers all of the common errors I see, and provides a basic structure for writing scientific papers in English, along with examples. It starts with a background to the English language and why it is so annoying. Then it presents the basic structure of a scientific paper. Then it shows examples of how to write and how not to write, and why.

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拙著Writing Science in Englishは、英語で出版物の執筆をしなければならない日本人科学者のためのハウツーガイドとなることを意図して書かれています。本書は、日本人著者と25年にわたって科学編集者として仕事をしてきた私の経験に基づいており、私がよく目にする誤りをすべて網羅し、英語で科学論文を執筆するための基本構造を例とともに提供しています。まず、英語という言語の背景と、英語の面倒な点から始め、科学論文の基本構造を提示し、次いで、論文の書き方の例と、適切でない書き方の例、そしてその理由を述べています。

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