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Moore, Tim – Australian Universities' Review, 2020
The research is complete, the article written, there's just one last job-think of a great title, one that not only elegantly summarizes your research, but that is also going to grab the attention of a fickle and perpetually time-poor readership. Article titling is a challenge for experienced researchers, and even more so for young academics…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Faculty Publishing, Writing for Publication, Periodicals
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Paudel, Pitambar – Online Submission, 2022
With the change in socio-political and educational contexts in global academia, the trend of writing academic papers has arisen among Nepali students and educators in higher education. However, many of them are still unfamiliar with the basic standard to be incorporated in an academic paper. In this context, this study examined the post-graduate…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Syntax, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Sixty-eight undergraduate translation students received direct instruction in the features of news headlines and news stories. A week later, they took a test that required them to identify the syntactic and lexical features of a sample of news headlines and news stories, supply deleted word, and substitute punctuation marks, infinitives, and block…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mogahed, Mogahed M. – Online Submission, 2012
This article deals with the issue of using punctuation marks correctly. The misuse of punctuation marks affects meaning; therefore, it affects translation. As a result, the writer should pay more attention to punctuation marks and not to use them randomly. Simultaneously, the reader has to take care of the punctuation marks when interpreting a…
Descriptors: Punctuation, Role, Selection, Translation
Frank, Marcella – 1972
This reference guide presents detailed information about current English usage with emphasis on both formal and informal written language. The practical needs of advanced learners of English as a second language are considered and there is heavy concentration on grammatical usages that continue to trouble foreign students: articles, verb forms,…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, English, English (Second Language)