English for Scientists
English for Scientists Daily Journal
- Receive an email each day with your article
- A service 4 days a week with 15 minutes of English for science text
- Improve your English for Science throughout the year
- A different topic each day and revision over time
- Covers all aspects of scientific work from writing papers to presenting
Welcome to English for Scientists. This page contains the daily Journal update, with a new post 4 days each week.
We will cover different scientific activities each week, from presenting seminars to writing up your research in a full-lenght research article. We will break down writing a full article across several weeks. Other weeks will cover writing a review or presenting a poster at a conference. We will continue to cover different aspects of a researchers work that needs to be presented in English.
Within each week we will look at different aspects of presenting in English, such as grammar, phrases, writing style and language construction. We will highlight many phrases that you can use in your work to aid your writing and presenting. We will use real live work that has been written and presented as examples.
Because learning English is not a one-off exercise, but a matter of continual practice this Journal is a Daily Journal covering many aspects of English used in science and research that we will return to over again. This will help you to solidfy and retain knowledge of the language over time. The daily delivery of English that you can read and understand in 15 minutes will make it easy for you to fit into your daily life. It is designed to be easy for you to get through quickly once a day and will include a short, fun interactive test each day to help you retain the knowledge.
We would really like to hear from you about the help you need and what you would like to see included in the Daily Journal entries, which you can do in the contact form.
We hope you enjoy using these daily entries – the first four days in weeks 1 and 2 are free for you to try. Start your subscripton with 4-week free trial here.
Week 15 – research language specifics
22 March – Useful phrases for writing your discussion
Week 14 – items for submitting your paper (part 2) and more language
16 March – language for discussing the limitations of your research – part 2
15 March – language for discussng the limitations of your research – part 1
14 March – using abbreviations in research
13 March – how to write a cover letter to accompany your manuscript
Week 13 – items for submitting your paper and more language
9 March – Day 4: how to use prepositions for research
8 March – Day 3: language for describing what your research contains or involves (part 2)
Week 8 – language and grammar
4 November – Day 5: language for poster presentations
3 November – Day 4: practicalities for poster presentation
2 November – Day 3: language for discussing quantities
1 November – Day 2: expressing limitations and negative outcomes
31 October – Day 1: language for engagement and collaboration part 2
Week 7 – language and grammar for research articles
28 October – Day 5: language for engagement and collaboration
27 October – Day 4: using that, which, who and the -ing form
26 October – Day 3: more word order for sentences
Week 6 – Writing an abstract and some language and grammar
21 October – Day 5: language for cause and effect
20 October – Day 4: phrases for abstracts
19 October – Day 3: writing short sentences
Week 5 – Writing a paper, the conclusion and some grammar and style
14 October – day 5: confusing words – pronouns
13 October – day 4: writing style – collocations
12 October – day 3: irregular singulars and plurals and a conclusion
Week 3: Writing a paper, presenting results and data
30 September – day 5: quantifying measurements and amounts
29 September – day 4: describing data and making comparisons
28 September – day 3: describing data, and increases and decreases
27 September – day 2: writing captions
26 September – day 1: presenting numerical values and statistics
