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Want to improve your English writing skills to write an article, thesis or dissertation in English?

Download this FREE e-BOOK for self-study or to start a study group program in your department or lab to improve English writing skills. It was written by Adam TurnerĀ for Korean graduate engineering and applied sciences students writing for publication or presentation in English.

http://ctl.hanyang.ac.kr:8001/writing/engsciresearchwritingbook.pdf

 
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Writing and Publishing Tips from Journal Editors and Faculty

http://prl.aps.org/edannounce/PRLv95i17.html

Handling negative reviewer's comments

How to read an engineering paper

http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/wgg/CSE210/howtoread.html

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Engineering and Technical Communication Websites

http://hanyangowl.org/mod/glossary/view.php?id=149

http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~writing/handbook.html

http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/

http://www.engineering.utoronto.ca/English/page-1-2049-1.html

http://132.236.67.210/engrwords/

Complete technical writing textbook online:

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/styleforstudents/

Review of grammar for research writing

http://louisville.edu/~jlwolf02/eif/

http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/twsent.html

Technical writing guides

http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/tsw/toc.htm

http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/

http://stipo.larc.nasa.gov/sp7084/sp7084cont.html

http://www.class.uidaho.edu/adv_tech_wrt/resources.htm

IEEE style for Thesis and Dissertations

http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/current/grad/overview/ECE_StyleGuide_Nov2007.pdf

Guide to figures and tables

http://www.engr.utexas.edu/che/techwriting/faq/chart.cfm#pres

Common errors in technical writing

http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~jowens/commonerrors.html http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/etc/writing-style.html http://www.io.com/~hcexres/power_tools/sentence_style.html

References

IEEE reference style http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/pubs/ref_guides/ieee.html

http://www.engineering.utoronto.ca/about/programs/communication/Online_Handbook/Accurate_Documentation.htm

Video interviews on the importance of writing for engineers

http://writing.colostate.edu/collections/engineering/writers.cfm

A short history of science writing

http://www.scitext.com/history.php

How to read an engineering paper

http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/wgg/CSE210/howtoread.html

Presentation skills resources

http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/slides.html

http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/oral.html

Poster design resources

http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/posters.html

http://www.biology.eku.edu/RITCHISO/posterpres.html

http://www-eng.tp.edu.sg/tcs/tcs2/toc.htm

http://students.aiche.org/events/judge_form_stu_poster.pdf

http://phdposters.com/gallery.php

Professional engineering writing

http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~writing/handbook-memo.html

http://www.engineering.utoronto.ca/English/page-1-2051-1.html

Formal email writing

http://hanyangwriting.tripod.com/email/formalemailformat.pdf

General engineering reference pages

http://www.engapplets.vt.edu/

Mathematical grammar site

http://emis.kaist.ac.kr/monographs/Trzeciak/

Proposal writing

http://ropas.kaist.ac.kr/~kwang/proposals.html

Engineering Thesis advice

http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chinneck/thesis.html

Undergraduate science reports

http://www.usyd.edu.au/learningcentre/wrise/

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General Science Interest

Digital Culture

www.wired.com

Popular Science Archives

http://www.popsci.com/archives

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Specific Fields of Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Heuristics

http://www.aiche.org/Students/Tools/index.aspx

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1. Free Ebook on engineering and applied sciences research writing. ContainsĀ much of the original content files in the other modules on this site.

a) PDF version (2.8MB)

b) MS Word version (4.7MB)

2. Tutorial on how to use Google Scholar Advanced Search to check English grammar in your field (PDF 929KB)

3. Tutorial on how to use Adobe Acrobat Reader advanced search to analyze English grammar and writing style in your field (PDF 1.27MB)

4. Checklist for writing scientific research articles (PDF)

5. Guide to the most common format and punctuation errors in graduate student science and engineering articles (PDF).

6. A guide to using references and avoiding plagiarism in sciences and engineering.

7. Correct format for writing formal email (PDF)

8. International formats for writing the date correctly (PDF)