Questions related to academic English or English for academic purposes, i.e. the English used in higher education.
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Correct formatting of quote which includes a description of speaker and where quote was spoken
I am trying to begin a paper with a quote but the person is really only known to people within a certain background so I want to include more information than: person + where quote was spoken.
Just taking a random guess I put together this:
"yada…
skyfire
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Is there an established English term for ‘domiciled/hosted’ researchers
Within the world of Danish academia, it is possible for a researcher to be ‘hosted’ by an academic institution (frequently the Royal Library) without being officially employed there. The Danish term for such a position is domicileret (forsker)…
Janus Bahs Jacquet
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Academic course repeats every week and every term. Succinct terminology to tell one from the other?
I am participating in an academic course that is multiple weeks long (the course spans a full term / a full semester). In some years, the whole course is offered multiple times a year (every term / every semester), in some years it is not.…
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"What is x?" as a non-question title
I am working on my PhD thesis. I would like to have section title like "What is x"? (Specifically, "What is Information Flow Security?") However, I wish to avoid rhetorical questions in my academic writing, and so I was wondering if there is a way…
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Is pan-project a word?
In order to refer to something across all the sub-projects or areas of the project.
What else could be one-word or an efficient way of saying, "You are going to work pan-project"?
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What are alternatives of "a better way" in academic writing?
I want to say "A better way to analyse the .. is to understand its underlying structure". What are the alternatives to saying a better way?
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The word "perplexed" in academic writing
Can I use the word "perplexed" in academic writing? If not, would you please suggest another word?
Example sentence: When numerical examples provide different results, audience will be left perplexed on how the issue is solved.
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the word confer in an official academic letter
I am wondering is this the right way to use confer in a sentence which is part of an official academic letter.
<'degree title'> conferred on <'student name'> by <'the dept., college, university'> on<'data of the award'>.
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This is to…
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"Skyrocket" in academic writing
Would it be appropriate to use the verb skyrocket in an academic paper?
It sounds very colloquial to me, but as I'm not a native speaker I'm not sure.
If not, what is a good synonym I could use?
This is the sentence:
Managers’ decisions can be…
Tommaso Amici
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How to say "is constant in one year"? (Paper Writing)
I'm helping someone to write their academic paper. He wrote 'something is constant in one year.' But I feel the 'in one year' is a bit awkward. Do I need to change it?
The meaning is that we are making an assumption that a certain variable remains…
ZK Zhao
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English regulators?
Does anyone know if English has a regulator as Spanish does? We have "Real Academia Española" (Royal Spanish Academy) it seems English doesn't have one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_regulators). Even Klingon has one (he he).
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More professional ways to express "something else I have learned" as the title of a slide
I am a PhD student and I was preparing a slide presentation for summarizing what I did and learned in the last year. My plan is first presenting research work progress and then showing what I have learned in some other aspects, e.g., how to balance…
