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Title
Academic writing for graduate students - essential tasks and skills
Academic writing for graduate students - essential tasks and skills
Author
John M. Swales
John M. Swales
format
Paperback / softback
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Michigan ELT
Michigan ELT
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20120709
20120709
Description
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:
The Commentary has also been revised and expanded.
This edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students, like its predecessors, has many special features:
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 students to do their own research
- 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.
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