Acknowledgements
This book involved the collaboration of a huge number of people. My thanks go to:
Anna Southern whose editing skills considerably improved the quality of the manu-
script, and Sylvia Southern for reading the chapters in Part 1.
Professor Pierdomenico Perata, Dr Caroline Mitchell and Dr Ivan Appelqvist for
useful insights into the politics of the refereeing and publication process and ideas
on hedging.
Mike Seymour for a never-ending flow of useful information.
My PhD students and clients who very kindly gave me permission to quote from
their ongoing work. In particular:
Sara Tagliagamba (3.3), Elisabetta Giorgi (9.8), Estrella Garcia Gonzalez (12.5), Rossella
Borri (12.13), Chiara Vallebona (18.3)
The following authors gave me permission to quote from their work, I am hugely
indebted to them:
Alistair Wood (10.2, 12.9), Robert Matthews (12.9), Justin Kruger and David Dunning
(12.9) Chris Rozek (13.4, 14.2, 17.2), Basile Audoly and Sébastien Neukirch (13.6), Javier
Morales, Miguel Apátiga, and Victor M. Castaño (15.3, 15.4), Caroline Mitchell (16.5),
Andrea Mangani (16.7), Catherine Bertenshaw and Peter Rowlinson (17.4), Stefano
Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson and Magnus Enquist (17.8), Robert Coates (20.4), Richard
Wydick (20.7), David Dunning (20.9)
The following experts kindly provided me with quotes written specifically for
this book:
Prof. Robert Adams, Dr Melanie Bell, Dr Maggie Charles, Keith Harding, Dr John Morley,
Prof. James Hitchmough, Sandy Lang, Prof. Ken Lertzman, Chris Powell, Prof. Tracy
Seeley, Prof. Antonio Strozzi, Mark Worden
These providers of excellent website content:
Greg Anderson and Donald Dearborn (15.3, 16.4), Ken Lertzman (16.8), Alan Chong
(18.1).
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Acknowledgements
These non-native researchers provided me with information about the various
academic writing styles in their respective languages:
Mohamed Abedelwahab, Bernadette Batteaux (and colleagues at the European Space
Agency), Begum Cimen, Boris Demeshev, Lena Dal Pozzo, Maria Gkresta, Ali Hedayat,
Khalida Madani, Congjun Mu, Ahmed Nagy, Carolina Perez-Iratxeta, Kateryna Pishchikova,
Chandra Ramasamy, Anchalee Sattayathem
The following researchers discussed with me how they plan their papers:
Matteo Borzoni, Cesare Carretti, Mercy Njima, Francesco Rizzi, Daniel Sentenac
The following researchers and professors offered advice and encouragement in
getting this book commissioned:
Marco Abate, Robert Adams, Chandler Davis, Wojciech Florkowski, David Hine, Marcello
Lippmann, William Mackaness, Osmo Pekonen, Pierdomenico Perata, Beatrice Pezzarosso,
Alyson Price, Magdi Selim, Robert Shewfelt, Donald Sparks
I would also like to thank the creators of the Ignobel prizes (www. improbable.
com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize), some of whose award-winning
papers I have used in this book.
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Since 1984 Adrian Wallwork has been editing and revising scientific papers, as well
as teaching English as a foreign language. In 2000 he began specializing in training
PhD students from all over the world in how to write and present their research in
English. He is the author of over 20 textbooks for Springer Science+Business
Media, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, the BBC, and many
other publishers. In 2009 he founded English for Academics (englishforacademics.
com), which provides an editing and revision service for researchers (particularly
speakers of the following languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and
Spanish) who wish to publish their work in international journals.
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