'Globish-lization': a worldwide non-native English problem or a chance to evolve?

摘要

In the October issue of Trends in Microbiology, Norris [1] and Tychinin and Kamnev [2] discuss the worldwide problem of writing a scientific paper at a level that is ‘adequate’ especially for non-native English speakers. Many of us, when reviewing papers or projects of our peers, or writing our own papers, are aware of the difficulty in communicating science and the results of scientific research in a manner that is both appealing and grammatically correct. The stylistic differences between American and British English pose an additional problem for non-native English speakers when formatting or editing a paper for a journal, as well as the differences in punctuation and spelling.