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Dr. Zheng—A Faithful Co-operator

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This chapter reports the strategies that Dr. Zheng, a computer scientist, adopts while writing and publishing research articles in English. Dr. Zheng’s awareness of the rhetorical differences between Chinese and English may be one of the reasons prompting him to choose to write all his research articles in English because, he explained, he could write articles more precisely in English. He and his co-authors usually send their manuscript to the editing services for language polishing before submitting it to the journal, and secure a certificate of English-language editing in case the editor of the journal asks them to first edit the language of the manuscript before sending it out for review. He has established a long-term relationship with his co-authors in research and such a sort of relationship has facilitated his publications in English.

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Mu, C. (2020). Dr. Zheng—A Faithful Co-operator. In: Understanding Chinese Multilingual Scholars’ Experiences of Writing and Publishing in English. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33938-8_7

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