Language Specifics of Writing a Paper in English

• Authors: Jana Vančíková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper aims to define the specifics of academic writing with focus on English language. It presents the linguistic features of academic text in comparison to the non-academic writing. Secondly, it provides the extended list of typical expressions used in different parts of academic paper. The paper gives many linguistic examples of expressions frequently used in the research and scientific papers.

Keywords

EN

Academic writing; scientific English

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studia Commercialia Bratislavensia
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 466-481

Dates

published

2010-01-01

online

2010-12-30

Contributors

author

Jana Vančíková

• Faculty of Commerce, Department of services and tourism, University of Economics in Bratislava, Dolnozemska cesta 1, 852 35 Bratislava

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10151-010-0005-5