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Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills
John M. Swales
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Description for Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills
Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: CB; JHBC; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 702.
Explains understanding the intended audience, the purpose of the paper, and academic genres; includes the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising; shows how to write summaries and critiques; features "language focus" sections that address linguistic elements as they affect the wider rhetorical objectives; and helps students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.
Among the many changes in the third edition:
Explains understanding the intended audience, the purpose of the paper, and academic genres; includes the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising; shows how to write summaries and critiques; features "language focus" sections that address linguistic elements as they affect the wider rhetorical objectives; and helps students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.
Among the many changes in the third edition:
- newer, longer, and more authentic texts and examples
- greater discipline variety in texts (added texts from hard sciences and engineering)
- more in-depth treatment of research articles
- greater emphasis on vocabulary issues
- revised flow-of-ideas section
- additional tasks that require ... Read more
- more corpus-informed content
The Commentary has also been revised and expanded.
This edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students, like its predecessors, has many special features:- It is based on the large body of research literature dealing with the features of academic (or research) English and extensive classroom experience.
- It is as much concerned with developing academic writers as it is improving academic texts.
- It provides assistance with writing part-genres (problem-solutions and Methods and Discussion sections) and genres (book reviews,research papers).
- Its approach is analytical and rhetorical-users apply analytical skills to the discourses of their chosen disciplines to explore how effective academic writing is achieved.
- It includes a rich variety of tasks and activities, ranging from small-scale language points to issues of how students can best position themselves as junior researchers.
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472034758
SKU
V9780472034758
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