Academic writing for graduate students : essential tasks and skills /
Swales, John M.
Academic writing for graduate students : essential tasks and skills / John M. Swales and Christine B. Feak - Third edition. - Ann Arbor, Michigan : The University of Michigan Press, c2012 - xiv, 418 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Approach to academic writing -- 2. General-specific and specific-general texts -- 3. Problem, process and solution -- 4. Data commentary -- 5. Writing summaries -- 6. Writing critiques -- 7. Constructing a research paper I -- 8. Constructing a research paper II -- Appendix 1. The grammar of definitions -- Appendix 2. Articles in academic writing -- Appendix 3. Academic English and Latin phrases.
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.
9780472034758
ACADEMIC WRITING
PE 1408 .S93 2012
Academic writing for graduate students : essential tasks and skills / John M. Swales and Christine B. Feak - Third edition. - Ann Arbor, Michigan : The University of Michigan Press, c2012 - xiv, 418 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Approach to academic writing -- 2. General-specific and specific-general texts -- 3. Problem, process and solution -- 4. Data commentary -- 5. Writing summaries -- 6. Writing critiques -- 7. Constructing a research paper I -- 8. Constructing a research paper II -- Appendix 1. The grammar of definitions -- Appendix 2. Articles in academic writing -- Appendix 3. Academic English and Latin phrases.
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.
9780472034758
ACADEMIC WRITING
PE 1408 .S93 2012