{"id":1908,"date":"2013-10-25T08:55:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T08:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/varieties-of-english-in-research-writing\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T08:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:16:59","slug":"varieties-of-english-in-research-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/varieties-of-english-in-research-writing","title":{"rendered":"Varieties of English in research writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Journal publishing, especially that related to publishing STM journals, which is jargon for \u2018science, technology, medicine,\u2019 is dominated by a few publishers from USA, Britain, and Europe, and scientific journals, for the most part, recognize only two varieties of English &#8211; American and British &#8211; at least as far as points of style are concerned. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">The differences in style are many, but mostly trivial. For example, the \u2018title case\u2019 or the \u2018headline style\u2019 (Capitalizing Every Important Word) is far more common in journals published from the US, and so is the practice of indenting the first line of a paragraph that immediately follows a heading. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">The instructions to authors as published in many journals rarely mention the differences in vocabulary or grammar but are mostly confined to spellings. A \u2018default\u2019 dictionary is often specified, most commonly Merriam-Webster or Oxford. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">For points of style, American journals refer authors to one of the standard guides, the most common of these being<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagomanualofstyle.org\/\">The Chicago Manual of Style<\/a><\/em>,<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1021\/bk-2006-STYG.ch014\">The ACS Style Guide<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(published by the American Chemical Society),<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificstyleandformat.org\/\">Scientific Style and Format<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(published by the Council of Science Editors, the<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amamanualofstyle.com\/\">AMA Manual of Style<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(published by the American Medical Association), or the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apastyle.org\/manual\/\"><em>Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association<\/em><\/a>. Standard style guides published from Britain, such as the<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/new-oxford-style-manual-9780198767251\">New Oxford Style Manual<\/a><\/em>\u00a0or<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ayorek.org\/files\/References\/Copy-editing_%20The%20Cambridge%20Handbook%20for%20Editors,.pdf\">Butcher\u2019s Copy-editing<\/a><\/em>\u00a0are not mentioned as frequently, neither is the<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ease.org.uk\/publications\/science-editors-handbook\/\">Science Editors\u2019 Handbook<\/a><\/em>, published by the European Association of Science Editors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">It is not as though other varieties of English do not exist\u2014the website on varieties of English [1], maintained by the Language Samples Project in the Anthropology Department of the University of Arizona, asks visitors to choose from the following \u2018Englishes\u2019: African-American, American Indian, British, Canadian, Chicano, Northeast, and Southern States. The<em>\u00a0Oxford Dictionary of English<\/em>\u00a0(3rd edition) enlisted \u2018world English consultants\u2019 for the following varieties: US, Australian, Canadian, Caribbean, Indian, Irish, New Zealand, Scottish, and South African.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Indeed the many varieties of English is a large topic actively and extensively studied by linguists but, as far as publishing other scientific research is concerned, hardly seems to be of any consequence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/ic-migration.webhost.uits.arizona.edu\/icfiles\/ic\/lsp\/site\/\">http:\/\/ic-migration.webhost.uits.arizona.edu\/icfiles\/ic\/lsp\/site\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal publishing, especially that related to publishing STM journals, which is jargon for \u2018science, technology, medicine,\u2019 is dominated by a few publishers from USA, Britain, and Europe, and scientific journals, for the most part, recognize only two varieties of English &#8211; American and British &#8211; at least as far as points of style are concerned. 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