Dear colleagues,
What can you tell me about conventional English writing skills ?
Is there any software that can help non-native English researchers ? Otherwise, any other solution ?
Thanks
You first feel you are native researcher. There is no such type of software that will help you in research. research completely depend on methodology, that you opt for. For what you are going for research.
Academic writing (in English) can be a learnt skill, with ongoing improvements with practice. First, you have to learn the writing conventions in your discipline field. You can can learn the conventions by reading published peer-reviewed articles in top journals. By conventions I mean syntax, style, rhetorical devices, writing organization, and format. There are some software in the market that can help with editing, but I myself find that they are not really worth the value. Word MS can help with the basic reviewing in grammar and spelling.
Being aware of how you write academically is an important step to improve one's writing. Compare how you write a research paper with what it is expected in your field can be a lesson. This is what we call (intercultural) Contrastive Rhetoric and you can find more about it in U. Connor's work, for example.
Research Methodology is another point, and it depends on one's research field and tradition (e.g. quantitative and qualitative). There are various software nowadays to help organize data and perform statistics analysis; but again, you choose the methodology depending on your research questions and objectives.
@ Andrea C. Val many thanks for your valuable contribution!
Each time they ask us for an evaluation by native without specifying the faults. Best
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