Description
Publishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This fourth edition has been substantially rewritten to highlight how you can now benefit from using AI as a support tool for writing research papers.
The book contains easy-to-follow guidelines and tips, with examples taken from published and unpublished papers. Detailed advice is given on how to write titles and decide what to include in the Abstract, Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion and Conclusions.
You will also learn how to:
· identify your readers (human and AI) and the journal style
· highlight your unique claims and contribution
· structure paragraphs and avoid synonyms for keywords
· prompt AI with context and constraints
· use AI to edit your draft manuscript and then simulate a peer review
· mitigate AI hallucinations and homogenization
Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 50 English Language Teaching (ELT) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and researchers from around 60 countries to write papers and prepare conference presentations with and without the use of LLMs.
Anna Southern has edited around 2000 scientific papers for top universities and research centers. Her career includes EFL teaching, health project management (South London Health Authority, UN Gambia, British Council), and publications in scientific journals, along with four co-authored books for the BBC.
Table of Contents
Preparing to write: Knowing your research, your reader, and your journal.- Writing for the reader.- The importance of clarity.- Structuring paragraphs and maximizing keyword visibility.- Understanding the benefits of chatbots.- Effective prompting.- Improving your academic writing with AI.- Using AI to edit and peer review your paper.- How to mitigate the limitations of chatbots.- Titles.- Abstracts - types and overall structure.- Abstracts - Style and Content.- Introduction.- Review of the Literature.- How to write a Review Paper.- Methods.- Results.- Discussion.- Conclusions.- The Final Check.- Author biographies.-Acknowledgements.- Sources and links.- Index by section number.
