Writing Readable Research - A Guide for Students of Social Science - Beverly Lewin
Using Verbs
Writing Readable Research - A Guide for Students of Social Science - Beverly Lewin
Beverly Lewin [+]
Tel Aviv University
Beverly A. Lewin has extensive experience in teaching scientific writing to Ph.D. students from non - English speaking backgrounds, in various social sciences, as well as in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology. Her research focuses on scientific discourse, especially genre analysis and managing interpersonal relations in texts (hedging and criticism). Publications include Expository Discourse: A Genre-Based Approach to Social Science Texts (co-authored with Jonathan Fine and Lynne Young, Continuum, 2001) and The Sword and the Word: Criticism in the Academy (co-edited with Françoise Salager-Meyer, Peter Lang, forthcoming).
Description
Information is expressed in clauses containing a subject (in the form of a noun or pronoun), discussed in Chapter 2, and a verb. Verbs tell you what the subject does. This chapter looks at verbs and tenses and considers their importance in scientific writing. Topics Covered: Tenses in General; Tenses in Social Science Writing; Using the Tenses; The Passive; Modals; The Conditional; Putting it Altogether; Answers to Tasks