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English for Academic Research:

Vocabulary Exercises

Adrian Wallwork

English for Academic

Research: Vocabulary

Exercises

Adrian Wallwork

Via Carducci 9

56127 Pisa, Italy

adrian.wallwork@gmail.com

ISBN 978-1-4614-4267-7

ISBN 978-1-4614-4268-4 (eBook)

DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-4268-4

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Preface

English level required for this book

This book contains almost 200 exercises designed to practice the non-tech-

nical vocabulary you will need when writing a research manuscript in English.

It is aimed at students and researchers of any discipline whose ﬁrst lan-

guage is not English. It is assumed that you have already reached a sufﬁcient

level of English to read and understand a research paper in your particular

ﬁeld. You may ﬁnd some technical words in the exercises that you are not

familiar with. You can simply ignore such words – they should not prevent

you from being able to complete the exercise.

Structure of the book

Chapters 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , and 5 practice vocabulary in terms of grammatical func-

tion (e.g., adjectives and adverbs, link words, nouns, prepositions, and

verbs). The other chapters deal with false friends, synonyms, and spelling

issues, as well as useful phrases for research papers and emails (to col-

leagues and editors).

There are many more exercises on verbs than on nouns. If you wish to

practice the difference between, for example, identiﬁcation and detection , or

proposal and recommendation , and you cannot ﬁnd such words in the index

(page 191), then look under the related verbs ( identify, detect, propose,

recommend) . Generally speaking, the difference between two nouns is likely

to be the same difference as between the two related verbs.

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