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Beware essay or dissertation writing services
This BBC documentary highlights the huge problem of those companies offering essay and dissertation writing services. The services they offer are PLAGIARISTIC and should NEVER be engaged. English Proofread is a professional academic proofreading company and as opposed to those … Continue reading
EPR’s vlog on spoonerisms or metathesis
Spoonerisms to make you laugh English Proofread’s second vlog is here on ‘spoonerisms’ and we hope you find it amusing! Feel free to comment, like and share. 🙂 Posted by English Proofread on Wednesday, 22 February 2017 How to Share … Continue reading
EPR’s spoonerism vlog
English Proofread’s second vlog is here on ‘spoonerisms’ and we hope you find it amusing! Feel free to comment, like and share.
Research collaboration opportunities
The Qatar National Research Fund have a substantial list of research collaboration opportunities – it could be you they are looking for!
Helpful Science Europe postdoc funding report
Download this Science Europe report from a pan-European association of research funders and institutions offering some pointers about what to expect and look for in postdoctoral funding programmes across the continent.
Improving your academic English using the AWL
This site by Exam English (click here) provides a series of tests designed to improve your knowledge of academic English using the Academic Word List (AWL) – an extremely valuable tool for all students and researchers.
Machine translation: the end of the human translator?
Translating from one language to another is fraught with difficulty – capturing exact words can be hard enough let alone more subtle meanings like metaphor, pathos, or culturally specific references and phrases. But machine translation is even more complex, although … Continue reading
Nine science words that even smart people get wrong
It’s particularly easy to get things wrong when it comes to science, because words often have a different meaning for scientists than they do for the rest of the population. This article will help with clearing up some of these … Continue reading
Australian grants for Arab academics
See the link here for an interesting call from the Australian government for grant tenders which our friends and colleagues in the Arab world may be interested in: International Speakers Program – support the two-way flow of influential individuals between … Continue reading
EU cash for hard-up social scientists
Not a marriage proposal, but a study proposal… the EU has cash to splash on hard-up social scientists. View the EU’s research grants here.