Thursday, June 2, 2011
English for Writing Papers
Writing academic papers is a difficult job, especially for a non-native English person like me. Therefore, I have collected some standard English words, phrases, and structures. Hope it's also useful for you :)
a) Words and Phrases
a) Words and Phrases
- ... under consideration. (ex. ... is the token under consideration)
- ..., as well as ...
- ... due to + N
- ... that deal with the problem of ...
- ... take into account ...
- ... analyze ... in more detail.
- ... be out of the scope of ...
- repeatedly
- negligible
- "alternatively" is preferred to the word "alternately" (unless you really mean something that alternates)
- use "whereas" instead of "while" (unless you are referring to simultaneous events)
- do not use "essentially" to mean "approximately" or "effectively"
- do not use "issue" as a euphemism for "problem"
- "affect" (usually a verb) and "effect" (usually a noun)
- "et al." (italicized)
- "e.g.," : for example (not italicized)
- for ease of reference
- table tabulates ...
- Accordingly, ...
- Comparison: N of N1 is Adj-er than of N2 (e.g., the range of values of some variable is bigger than of the others)
- ... lie on... (be lying on)
- ...(i.e. shape and texture information) despite severe occlusion and noise.
- To this purpose, ...
b) Introduction and related work
- ... present a ... algorithm based on..., which improves the quality of results at the expense of increased computational complexity.
- They define ... to ... according to (N) ...
- An important aspect of this method is .... (ex. its robustness to noise)
- ..., thus making the computational complexity prohibitive for ... (ex. generalization to 3-D)
- How this methodology evolved is presented in the remaining sections of this ...
- What is more relevant to our research is that ...
- The authors do not explicitly require closure, but they also do not consider...
- Along the same lines is ... technique for ...
- Our results attained in different types of ....
- Many approaches have been invoked.
- Preliminary results of the proposed approach were published in our previous conference proceedings [5], [6]. In this paper, we discuss a novel view of our approach and present extensive quantitative comparison experiments on a large handwriting data set using approximately 10 scripts.
c) Contents (method description)
- ... make ... is not ..., but rather ...
- The first step of this stage is ...
- At this stage ...
- ... has/have significant improvement in quality.
- In our experiment, N... is adopted.
- A typical value of TH is …
- … noun (window size) + of + number (9) + to give the best results.
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