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Chapter 3

(1) Nicholas Carr, The Shallows, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010; (2) Leggett A “Notes on the

Writing of Scientific English for Japanese Physicists” published in the Nihon Butsuri Gakkaishi

(Vol. 21, No. 11, pp. 790–805). This is fascinating stuff for EAP trainers and scientific editors. The
full article is available at: http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jps/jps/topics/Leggett.pdf ; (3) www.guardian.
co.uk/books/2010/jul/15/slow-reading

3.18 Clarity in Technical Reporting, S Katzoff, NASA Scientific and Technical Information Division.
Free download at: http://courses.media.mit.edu/2010spring/mas111/NASA-64-sp7010.pdf

Chapter 4

(1) Statistic on Stanford students from: Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective
of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly, by Daniel Oppenheimer, available at:
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/opplab/papers/Opp%20Consequences%20of%20Erudite%20
Vernacular.pdf , (3 and 4) John Adair’s “The Effective Communicator” (The Industrial Society,
1989 – also available on Google Books).

4.1 On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, 1859; Good Style – Writing for Science and
Technology, John Kirkman, Routledge, 2006

Chapter 5

(1) http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-worlds-smallest-language-has-only-100-words-and-
you-can-say-almost-anything-2015-7 ; (2) http://www.nature.com/authors/author_resources/how_
write.html (3,4) Nicholas Carr, The Shallows, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

5.1 The first three quotations come from The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations

(1996) edited by M J & J M Cohen. The quote by novelist Barbara Kingsolver comes from a BBC
interview with her on June 9, 2010. Bruce Cooper’s quote can be found in his excellent book (for
those offering editing services) Writing Technical Reports, Penguin UK, 1999).

5.20 The Impact of Article Length on the Number of Future Citations: A Bibliometric Analysis of
General Medicine Journals http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id= 10.1371/journal.
pone.0049476#pone-0049476-t003

Chapter 6

(1) The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson, HarperCollins, 1990; (2) http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreign-
policy/peace/guide/pages/un%20security%20council%20resolution%20242.aspx

6.6 For more info see: http://www.fact-index.com/u/un/un_security_council_resolution_242.html
6.12 The legal example is based on a real case and is contained in Douglas Walton’s paper “New
Dialectical Rules For Ambiguity”.
6.14 The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson, HarperCollins, 1990