PHRASAL SCIENTIFIC®

Phrasal Elements in Scientific English

Medicine and Life Sciences Edition 2022

Phrasal Scientific is a compendium of used phrasal elements in scientific English and a general resource for academic writers. The compendium can be used to assist you in thinking about the content and organisation of your own writing.

Use specialized language easily

The modern scientific article has evolved a specialised language and prose style, adapted for efficient communication with other professionals engaged in similar research. Scientific English writing has its own style and rhythm, such as the use of passive voice. Phrasal Scientific helps you find specific linguistic patterns in your field of study.
Designed primarily for non-native English speakers

Scientific writing for non-native English speakers is one of the biggest struggles when writing a scientific paper. Non-native speakers tend to have spelling mistakes and their sentences don’t read well. Phrasal Scientific was designed primarily for academic and scientific writers who are non-native speakers of English. However, native writers may still find the tool helpful.
Phrase Composer

Phrase Composer is a unique web tool to interactively build useful phrasal elements in scientific English. It shows all used collocations for a word, phrase and scientific term. Collocation refers to how words go together or form fixed relationships. Collocations may be strong or weak. Strong collocations are where the link between the two words is quite fixed and restricted. Weak collocations are where a word can collocate with many other words. With Phrase Composer you build most useful phrases in scientific English.
Write like professional

Check how words, abbreviations and uncommon scientific terms should be arranged in a grammatical construction. Look up for statements of similar style from professional documents and inherit some aspects into your writing. Find useful patterns and examples from papers published in reputable journals. Stay focused primarily on the substantive aspect of the manuscript, while spending less time guessing how to write.
Improve readability

As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, you need to identify linguistic patterns that best serve the readability of your scientific reports. Improving your academic writing can result in a better impression by your peers. It can also impact your connections with other experts in your field. Phrasal empowers you to make an even greater impact in your discipline, accelerate understanding of your research and increase the faith of readers in the quality of your research.