Books on academic writing
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Updates 2025/02/06
This posts contains a list of recommended books for academic writing, which are particularly tailored for PhD students who are non-native English speakers. These books are classified into two types: GENERAL and GIScience.
GENERAL
- Glasman-Deal, H. (no date) Science research writing for non-native speakers of English. London Hackensack: Imperial college press Distributed by World scientific publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
This book is a handy book for non-native speakers of English, with loads of practical suggestions.
- Morley, J. (2023) Academic phrasebank: an academic writing resource for students and researchers. 5th edition. [Place of publication not identified]: Amazon.
The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It makes explicit the more common phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of academic writing. If you are unsure how to write a sentence in abstract or introduction, refer to the relevant section of this book.
- Strunk, W. and White, E.B. (2009) The elements of style. 4. ed. [Nachdr.], new ed. New York, Munich: Longman.
This book is for general writing, beyond academic writing. It covers almost every aspect of writing.
GIScience
- Longley, P. et al. (2015) Geographic information science and systems. Third edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. (Accessed: 12 December 2018).
This book, which is informally called Bible of GIS, does not teach how to use ArcGIS or geopandas. Instead, it provides a comprehensive review of GIScience and explains the principle behind every GIScience method in clear and concise language. High recommended.
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