Focuses on actual academic speaking events, particularly classroom
interactions and office hours, and gives students practice improving the ways
that they communicate in a college/university setting. This book addresses
skills like using names and names of locations correctly on campus, giving
directions and participating in class and in seminars.
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.
Progresses from general to specific issues in the writing of literature
reviews. This book introduces some orientations that raise awareness of the
issues that surround the telling of a research story. It discusses issues of
structure and matters of language, style, and rhetoric, includes sections on
metadiscourse, citation, and paraphrasing.