Questions tagged [academia]
Questions related to academic English or English for academic purposes, i.e. the English used in higher education.
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Is there a more popular alternative to the term 'flexibilization'?
Flexibilization refers to the changing work practices by which firms no longer use internal labor markets or implicitly promise employees lifetime job security, but rather seek flexible employment ...
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A more positive equivalent of “relegate”
In scientific literature, I sometimes see expression of this form:
We consider results 1, 2, and 3 here, while results 4 and 5 are relegated to Appendix Z.
The notion of "relegating" some ...
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Violence incidents or violent incidents? [closed]
In an academic paper I discuss violent situations. Is it correct to refer to this as 'violence incidents'? Or should I refer to it as 'violent incidents' instead?
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Saying a period of time of -ties (ex: the 80s to 90s) for a research paper correctly
I'm trying to write a sentence that mentions a specific period of time, though I'm not sure if I wrote it correctly or not. Here's what I have.
We have succeeded in the era of the 1960s to 1980s
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Using “Sequence” in music context
As a part of my academic paper, I wish to use the "Sequence" word.
Here is the problem:
As you can see in the picture, the "Start Time" of each note is mentioned on the time axis. ...
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left arrow, left-pointing arrow, or leftwards arrow? [closed]
In the context of a figure caption referencing a left-pointing arrow in the figure in the following parenthetical way:
Fig. 1 | ... Here I describe some process (left arrow). ...
A colleague ...
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How to say that something doesn't get divided?
For my work, I cluster genes in a way that some genes can be in a cluster of size 10, and others in a cluster of 1, i.e. the gene is a singleton and has no other genes to cluster with. After that, I ...
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Choosing the right title for my academic publication [closed]
I'm writing a computer science paper where the concept is "many small pieces would work better that a single big one". Basically the collaboration of multiple small entities would be better ...
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“What is x?” as a non-question title
I am working on my PhD thesis. I would like to have section title like "What is x"? (Specifically, "What is Information Flow Security?") However, I wish to avoid rhetorical ...
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“In the preceding paragraph” vs “in the last paragraph”
I am writing an academic paper.
After finishing paragraph A, I want to refer to A in paragraph B, which follows A.
I am confused with choosing "in the preceding paragraph" or "in the ...
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“Represent” vs “stand for” vs “means”
I am writing an academic paper.
I wrote the following sentences
Notation A ā B stands for that A corresponds to B. Qualid and ident
stand for qualified identifiers and simple identifiers,
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“During the proof search” vs “during searching the proof”
I am writing an academic paper and use "during searching the proof" in my paper.
But my friend suggested me to use "during the proof search".
I also feel "during the proof ...
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Founding father/mother or founding figure?
I'm quoting an author who is known as the "founding father" of a scientific discipline. However, I feel that I want to make it sound less patriarchal. Of course, many disciplines had women ...
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Could we say “discuss future work”?
I am writing my thesis. I have a sentence
Finally, we conclude the thesis and discuss future work in Section 6.
My friend told me that "discuss future work" was not appropriate, and I ...
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“one is … another is … ” and “the first is … the second is …”
I am writing an academic paper. I use the following representations:
However, up to now, far too little attention has been devoted to two
problems of the state-of-the-art proof automation systems. ...
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“make them widely used” and “lead to them being widely used”
I have two alternatives in an academic paper. The first is
Additionally, the expressive logic foundations of ITPs lead to them
being widely used
The other is
Additionally, the expressive logic ...
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“constructing proofs directly by hand” or “directly constructing proofs by hand”
There are two alternatives for a sentence
Nevertheless, developing automatically verifiable proofs by proof assistants usually takes more time than constructing proofs directly by hand.
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How to express the “multiple” of one thing's advantage over anotherļ¼
For example, car A runs at a speed of 30 km/h, and car B at a speed of 90 km/h. How can I express the multiple of B faster than A?
B has 3 times advantage over A in speed.
B has 2 times advantage ...
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Whilst or while, etc - Oxford Spelling
I am writing an academic paper and would like to use the Oxford spelling throughout (I am native British). I read that Oxford spelling generally follows British English other than a few exceptions, ...
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worry vs worries
I saw them go through unemployment and worry about putting food on the table.
I saw them go through unemployment and worries of putting food on the table.
Which is grammatically correct?
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Is this sentence correct? ( adj+noun order)
"...possibly generated by the damages intensification of the hexagonal lattice caused by the repeated impact of the steel balls during the milling process."
First of all, from my point of view, damage ...
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Is this sentence correct? Could you please help me?
This process has been used to aggregate CNTs into metal matrices such as silicon, copper, aluminum and nickel.
It sounds ambiguous to me since I cannot tell by who, when or to what extent has this ...
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Is this collocation correct?
"This process was used to identify..."
I am not sure if "used" is correctly used here along with the word "process". Do you think it is correct, or should I replace it with "performed" or "carried out"...
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Is this sentence correct in the way that “and” is used?
"It is a relatively inexpensive process, and also preserves the involved materials in the solid-state, avoiding possible phase limitations."
It doesn't sound so good to me, but I am not a native ...
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Convention of writing percentage range
I am writing to inquire the convention of writing the following percentage range in academic writing:
We reduce the extra cost from 99.9% to 12%--24% (depending on different configuration schemes).
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Is “get stuck” a proper term in academic writing?
I am writing to inquire the usage of "get stuck" in academic writing. Here is my draft:
this design could get stuck in a bad local minima and therefore is not desired.
I use Google Scholar to ...
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The phrase “too simple”
I've seen three different peer reviewers criticize parts of scientific manuscripts as being "too simple", with little elaboration as to what changes are desired or what it means to be "too simple". ...
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What can I call a longer passage in an academic work (text equivalent to “Figure”)?
I want to number blocks of texts in my work (parts of a movie script or something the creators said) so that I can refer to them throughout the essay. Is there an equivalent to 'Figure' to label these ...
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What does “is seen to be” mean?
I am writing an academic article and to give conservative opinion, I am thinking to use the following statement:
XXX is seen to give worse results and therefore excluded in our report.
I am ...
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Looking for single word to represent “degree of completion”
I am writing a paper. There is a term used in my work that represents "the degree of completion", i.e., 32% in the phrase "32% was completed". I tried "progress" but think it's not intuitive and "...
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capitalization of the word section, theorem,… if refering using both number and adjective/name
I have a question related to Capital letters in "Theorem", "Conjecture" etc, Capitalization of "Theorem 1" in mathematics papers, https://mathoverflow.net/questions/27693/...
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A better word/phrase to describe “a more…” in a scientific paper
I am writing a scientific paper on how a cancer staging system may be improved. However, I am a non-native English speaker, and I am concerned that my current title reflects that too much.
Please, ...
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Does “corroborate” in a scientific context imply confirmation rather “either confirmation or rejection” of findings from previous studies?
I am a non-native English speaker writing a scientific paper.
I have question concerning the word corroborate. In my native language, one might say that a research project aim to corroborate ...
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Should I use a hyphen in “patient tailored” vs “patient-tailored”?
Being a non-native English speaker, I was wondering which is most correct?
(1) Patient-tailored staging of xx carcinoma, or
(2) Patient tailored staging of xx carcinoma?
It is for a scientific ...
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Tense in Academic Writing
What is the correct tense when writing an academic paper? For example, assuming [1] is a reference, are the following sentences correct?
Alice et al. [1] showed that ...
[1] shows that ...
We show ...
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word usage in academic writing - possesses, beyond, ability [closed]
Could you help me to check if this sentence is ok?
Beyond having similar osmosis potential to polymer sponges, it is desirable that the covering material possesses the ability of being dispersed by ...
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What are typical “emotional absolutes” and why we should avoid them in academic writing?
I am working on a revision of an academic research paper. We performed some empirical studies and wrote a paper to demystify some common misunderstanding of certain techniques.
One reviewer gave me ...
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What are the synonum of “This is accepted” for academia writing
I'm looking for an academic synonym for "This is accepted with". For example, I want to say This is accepted with the measure X or This is accepted when the X measure increases or this is accepted ...
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Can I use alma mater before graduating?
I'm currently writing cover letters for my next position, and I want to refer to the institution I will graduate from. Can I use the term alma mater despite not graduating yet?
Thanks!
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Noun opposite of a theoretician?
What do you call someone who is concerned with / active in practice and application rather than theory? That is, what is the noun opposite of "theoretician"?
I've looked on thesaurus.com, WordHippo....
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Single verb to refer a reader to the source of information in academic English
I would like to refer a reader in my research text to the source of information. I wrote in my thesis: "confer Proposition X" or "confer Section A". However, the reviewers suggested I should use ...
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Use of present tense in academic writing
I'm a graduate theology student, and I'm having some trouble with verb tenses. In my first chapter I explore the life and work of the author who is the subject of my study. I am often narrating in the ...
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“Many” as a pronoun at the beginning of a sentence
I am unable to decide if I should use 'many' to express "many people" in an academic writing. It goes like:
Many claim that ambiguity is a result of an inefficient parsing.
Do you see any problem ...
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Formal way of saying “dig it out”
I am writing an academic manuscript to describe the action of "digging certain stuff out." For instance, given an image containing several pedestrians, my image analysis techniques can extract those ...
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Using hyphenation to avoid ambiguity
When I write a research paper, I often use hyphenation in order to avoid ambiguity. For example, consider the phrase
fractionally Pareto optimal allocation
A person who does not know these terms ...
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Which one of these sentences is better? A thesis title - Apostrophes Showing Possession [closed]
Sentence 1 : The comparison of Muhammed BedruddĆ®n MahmĆ»d el-AynĆ®ās "Åerhu SĆ¼neni EbĆ» Davud" and "Umdet'Ć¼l- KĆ¢rĆ®" books
Sentence 2 : Comparison of the "Åerhu SĆ¼neni EbĆ» Davud" and "Umdet'Ć¼l- KĆ¢rĆ®" ...
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Do I have to use “I” or “we” when orally presenting my scientific thesis written by a single author? [closed]
I know that in a scientific paper or thesis made by a single author, it is common to use we. (This is also recommended at our university.)
But what about when you alone are presenting a thesis work ...
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A word for the property of scaling distance between two endpoints?
Scalability is defined as the capacity to be changed in size or scale.
In Computer Science, the term is often used in a context such as scalable networks, scalable algorithms, etc.
However, I want ...
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Using phrases in email to prof (academic)
1. "I hope you are doing well"
Will be it polite, if I write it in an email to Proff/start an email with it?
He was ill, and we wrote me about it
2. Thank you for taking time from your busy schedule ...
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How do you describe a study which attempts to isolate the compounding effect of factor A on factor B? [closed]
Shameless cry for academic help here.
I'm working on my thesis, which is a study that will focus on the compounding effect of group dynamics on persuasive technology. The control and treatment group ...
