Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills

by Swales, John M.; Freak, Christine B.

• ISBN13: 9780472034758
• ISBN10: 0472034758
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780472128488
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-09
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
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Summary

Like its predecessor, the third edition of A cademic Writing for Graduate Studentsexplains 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 The Commentary (teacher's notes and key) (978-0-472-03506-9) has been revised expanded.