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Academic English is nobody's first language. This series is written for researchers who work between Arabic and English: hedging that reads as confidence, translationese and how to hear it, sentence rhythm, and the phrasing reviewers flag without saying why. The goal is not native polish. It is a clear, credible scientific voice.
WRITING IN ENGLISH
APA 7 says use active voice as much as possible and Nature journals prefer it. Passive still fits in methods, but only where the material matters more than the actor.
WRITING IN ENGLISH
Due to the fact that becomes because. It is important to note that becomes nothing at all. A section-by-section swap table of fifty phrases, and how to cut them in one tracked pass.
WRITING IN ENGLISH
Editors spot translationese in the first paragraph. Seven tells that Arabic drafting leaves in English prose, and the passes that remove them in minutes.
WRITING IN ENGLISH
Reviewers compress every language problem into one sentence. What that sentence usually points at, how to triage your own manuscript, and what PLOS ONE and Frontiers actually require of the English.
WRITING IN ENGLISH
Over-hedged sentences assert nothing and under-hedged ones assert too much. A calibration ladder from proves down to may indicate, and the filler hedges to delete.