Adrian Wallwork

In my humble opinion, this is a very useful tool for improving how your research papers are written.
In the past, when I was a young Ph.D. student, I thought that most of the efforts of a scientist had to be devoted to the research itself, and only a minor part of the work time to the presentation of the results.
With time, I learned that a fluent (and correct) writing is a prerequisite for a good review of a paper.
This book helped me a lot in improving my acceptance rate, making my papers judged mostly by their scientific contents.
The book can be read from start to end and then can be used as a reference. I really appreciate that the book contains excerpts of published and unpublished papers, with the indications of mistakes and useful suggestions for improving the sentences.
The book contains a lot of tips in how to please the referees of the papers. In particular, I found very useful the chapter on hedging. In fact, I was used to be a bit too sharp in criticizing other approaches and I had the bad habit of boasting my own contributions. This chapter helped me to soften my sentences and to be less direct.
In conclusion, I will definitely recommend this book, especially to Ph.D. students.… (més)