Beyond style guides: Suggestions for better scientific English

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 157-160

  Tychinin, Dmitry N ^a   Kamnev, Alexander A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS AND MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Editing; English language; Publishing; Scientific writing

Indexed keywords

PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

EDITING; ENGLISH LANGUAGE; SCIENCE JOURNALS; SCIENTIFIC WRITING;

LINGUISTICS;

BIOMEDICINE; EXPERIENCE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; ORGANIZATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SKILL; SPEECH THERAPY; WRITING;

EID: 24344481259     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2005.06.001     Document Type: Article

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