Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills

Like its predecessor, the third edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students 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 students to do their own research
*more corpus-informed content
*binding that allows the book to lay flat when open.

The Commentary (teacher's notes and key) (978-0-472-03506-9) has been revised expanded.

Author: John M. Swales, Christine Feak
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
Published: 07/09/2012
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780472034758
ISBN10: 0472034758
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | General