Online writing lab at Purdue University
Parallelism and verb tenses from the
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University in the USA. This website has self-help grammar and punctuation lessons for non-English speaking writers. Some of them are relevant to writers of research papers and other professional documents.
Our recommendations:
- Parallelism: You need to write lists (inside sentences or bulleted) in parallel form in English. Otherwise readers are confused.
Examples of grammar
Grammar through engineering examples from Virginia Tech. Here, grammar is taught in a way that's worthy of a busy engineering researcher's attention—it's completely relevant to your writing. From Michael Alley.
Technical writing of non-native English speakers
Common grammar problems in the technical writing of non-native English speakers are discussed in the
Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing.
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