| Description |
xiv, 418 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Michigan series in English for academic & professional purposes |
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Michigan series in English for academic & professional purposes.
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| Contents |
Unit One: An Approach to Academic Writing. Audience -- Purpose and Strategy -- Organization -- Style -- Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift---Verbs -- Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift---Nouns and Other Parts of Speech -- Language Focus: Other Stylistic Features -- Flow -- Language Focus: Linking Words and Phrases -- Presentation -- Positioning -- Unit Two: General-Specific and Specific-General Texts. Opening with General Statements -- Opening with Statistics -- Opening with Definitions -- Writing a Definition -- Some Common Ways to Define in Academic Writing -- Language Focus: Verbs in Defining and Naming -- A Brief Look at the Elements of Formal Sentence Definitions -- Extended Definitions -- Variations in Definitions -- Discussions of Schools of Thought -- Specific-to-General Organization -- Unit Three: Problem, Process, and Solution. The Structure of Problem-Solution Texts -- Language Focus: Mid-Position Adverbs -- |
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Procedures and Processes -- Language Focus: -ing Clauses to Indicate Cause and Effect -- Language Focus: Passive Voice -- Flow of Ideas in a Process Description -- Language Focus: Indirect Questions -- Introducing the Solution -- Unit Four: Data Commentary. Strength of Claim -- Structure of Data Commentary -- Location Elements and Summaries -- Language Focus: Verbs in Indicative and Informative Location Statements -- Language Focus: Linking as Clauses -- Highlighting Statements -- Language Focus: An Introduction to Qualifications and Strength of Claim -- Language Focus: Specific Ways of Moderating or Qualifying a Claim -- Organization -- Language Focus: Comparisons -- Concluding a Commentary -- Language Focus: Dealing with Unexpected Outcomes or "Problems" -- Dealing with Graphs -- Dealing with Chronological Data -- Language Focus: Prepositions of Time -- Unit Five: Writing Summaries. Considerations before Writing a Summary -- |
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Some Notes on Plagiarism -- Paraphrasing -- Careful Use of Synonyms -- Language Focus: Identifying the Source -- Language Focus: Summary Reminder Phrases -- Syntheses of More than One Source -- Language Focus: Showing Similarities and Differences -- Unit Six: Writing Critiques. Book Reviews -- Language Focus: Stating Opinions -- Language Focus: Evaluative Language -- Evaluating a Published Article -- Language Focus: Unreal Conditionals -- Language Focus: Evaluative Language Revisited -- Critical Reading -- Language Focus: Beginning the Critique -- Language Focus: Inversions -- Reaction Papers -- Language Focus: Non-Standard Quotation Marks (Scare Quotes) -- A Few Thoughts on Manuscript Reviews for a Journal -- Unit Seven: Constructing a Research Paper I. Types of Journal Publication -- Short Communications (SCs) in Disciplines that Report Fieldwork -- Longer Research Papers -- Methods Sections -- Language Focus: Linking Phrases in Methods Sections -- |
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Results Sections -- Language Focus: Another Look at Location Statements -- Language Focus: Special Verb Agreements -- Language Focus: Making Comparisons -- Unit Eight: Constructing a Research Paper II. Introductions -- Creating a Research Space -- Language Focus: Citation and Tense -- Language Focus: Negative Openings in Move 2 -- Language Focus: Purpose Statements and Tense -- Discussion Sections -- Language Focus: Levels of Generalization -- Language Focus: Expressions of Limitation -- Unfinished Business -- Appendixes. Appendix One. The Grammar of Definitions -- Appendix Two. Articles in Academic Writing -- Appendix Three. Academic English and Latin Phrases |
| Summary |
This practical guide for graduate and undergraduate students features authentic texts from a variety of disciplines and is based on a large body of research literature dealing with the features of academic (or research) English |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Academic writing -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Writing.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Academic writing.
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers.
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writing skills |
| Genre/Form |
Problems and Exercises.
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Former Course Reserve reading
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| Author |
Feak, Christine B., author
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| LC no. |
2012454741 |
| ISBN |
9780472034758 |
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0472034758 |
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