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Category: How to write to publish internationally?
Significance in Academic Writing
In academic writing, objectivity is imperative. Where subjectivity presents, either in the author’s recommendations or inherent in the research findings, the subjectivity must be made clear to the readers to… Read More →
Style and Terminology Difference Between Countries
Knowing the background of the target journal and choosing the appropriate editing and translation language is also important. Perhaps not obvious to all non-native English speakers, but British English and… Read More →
Impact of Perspective on Research Findings
Taboo, Controversy and Over Generalization Even scientific studies can incur bias and controversy because research methods are determined by those who conduct it and the way people interpret the same… Read More →
EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) vs. CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
This is mentioned because in certain countries there are some well-respected or common alternative medicines that are not categorized under EBM. The term ‘alternative’ is used because these medicines or… Read More →
Language sense – Country specific information for journal papers
It is very easy to assume that other people, especially those in similar knowledge domain, to know everything you are talking about or implying. However, country specific information may be… Read More →
Units and measurements in journal papers
Certain systems of measurements, such as metrics versus imperial are fairly well known. However, different countries across different continents tend to adopt different systems, and sometimes have their unique customary… Read More →
Significance sense and research scope
In academic writing, authors need to justify the reason for their research and why it is significant, this is an important factor for reviewers to consider whether or not to… Read More →
Linguistics and geographical zoning in academic writing
Some terms leave plenty of room for the reader’s interpretation. However, in academic writing it is about getting the author’s point across, or presenting information as close to available evidence… Read More →
Asian vs East vs Eastern world vs Orient
Geographically, Asia comprises of approximately fifty countries in the regions of Central, East, South, Southeast, and Western Asia, and parts of Eurasia. However, in European languages the term “Asian” more… Read More →
Western vs West vs Western world vs Occidental
The concept of Western culture is generally linked to the classical definition of the Western world The “Western world” or the “West” is a term usually referring to different nations,… Read More →
National identity and academic writing
It is very common for authors to use first person pronouns and adopt national identify in their paper. There are several reasons why they do so, first because for some… Read More →
Loaded language and country perspectives in academic writing
Loaded language or loaded term is wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes (reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_language). When writing academically and publishing findings, authors should… Read More →