Everything about English

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: EnglishA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writersInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Through the Looking-GlassThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Measuring personality in one minute or less: A 10-item short version of the Big Five Inventory in English and GermanCited 3,469 times
5. Go sideways: CokeA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: MataA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Measuring personality in one minute or less: A 10-item short version of the Big Five Inventory in English and German

  Beatrice Rammstedt, Oliver P. John · 2007 · Journal of Research in Personality · 3,469 citations

• Japanese classification of gastric carcinoma: 3rd English edition

  Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2011 · Gastric Cancer · 3,064 citations

• THE MORAL ECONOMY OF THE ENGLISH CROWD IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

  E. P. Thompson · 1971 · Past and Present · 2,860 citations

• Moving beyond Kučera and Francis: A critical evaluation of current word frequency norms and the introduction of a new and improved word frequency measure for American English

  Marc Brysbaert, Boris New · 2009 · Behavior Research Methods · 2,163 citations

• Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma – 2nd English Edition –

  Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 1998 · Gastric Cancer · 2,149 citations

• The English Lexicon Project

  David A. Balota, Melvin J. Yap, Keith A. Hutchison · 2007 · Behavior Research Methods · 2,040 citations

• The Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS): psychometric properties of the SDS in English and Australian samples of heroin, cocaine and amphetamine users

  MICHAEL GOSSOP, SHANE DARKE, PAUL GRIFFITHS · 1995 · Addiction · 2,028 citations

• Occurrence of microplastics in the gastrointestinal tract of pelagic and demersal fish from the English Channel

  A.L. Lusher, M. McHugh, R.C. Thompson · 2013 · Marine Pollution Bulletin · 1,876 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers

  Weixin Liang, Mert Yuksekgonul, Yining Mao · 2023 · Patterns · 687 citations

• Artificial intelligence in language instruction: impact on English learning achievement, L2 motivation, and self-regulated learning

  Ling Wei · 2023 · Frontiers in Psychology · 504 citations

• Measuring EFL learners’ use of ChatGPT in informal digital learning of English based on the technology acceptance model

  Guangxiang Liu, Chaojun Ma · 2023 · Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching · 453 citations

• The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science

  Tatsuya Amano, Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda, Violeta Berdejo-Espinola · 2023 · PLOS Biology · 418 citations

• The affordances and contradictions of AI-generated text for writers of english as a second or foreign language

  Mark Warschauer, Waverly Tseng, Soobin Yim · 2023 · Journal of Second Language Writing · 345 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Through the Looking-GlassLewis Carroll · 1865
• CarmillaSheridan Le Fanu · 1871
• The Great God PanArthur Machen · 1894
• The Elements of StyleWilliam Strunk, Jr., E. B. White · 1920
• The Norton Anthology of English LiteratureM. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt · 1962
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams · 1979
• The Power of DarknessEdith Nesbit · 2006
• Watership DownRichard Adams · 1972

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