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Author(s): Stephen Bailey
ISBN(s): 9780748768387, 0748768386
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 5.13 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0748768386

ISBN 13: 9780748768387

Author: Stephen Bailey 

Ideal for overseas students studying at English-medium colleges and universities, this practical writing course enables international students to meet the required standard of writing and use an appropriate style for essays, exams and dissertations. Newly revised and updated to include extra exercises and material suggested by teachers and students, Academic Writing explains and demonstrates all the key writing skills and is ideal for use in the classroom or for independent study. Useful at every stage of an academic career and beyond, this indispensable book features:

  • different styles and formats from CVs and letters to formal essays
  • a focus on accuracy
  • coverage of all stages of writing, from understanding titles to checking your work
  • essential academic writing skills such as proper referencing, summarising and paraphrasing
  • diagrams and practice exercises, complete with answers.

Table of contents:

Part 1: The Writing Process

  1. Background to writing

  2. Developing plans from titles

  3. Evaluating a text

  4. Understanding purpose and register

  5. Selecting key points

  6. Note-making

  7. Paraphrasing

  8. Summary writing

  9. Combining sources

  10. Planning a text

  11. Organising paragraphs

  12. Organising the main body

  13. Introductions

  14. Conclusions

  15. Re-reading and re-writing

  16. Proof-reading

Part 2: Elements of Writing

  1. Cause and effect

  2. Cohesion

  3. Comparisons

  4. Definitions

  5. Discussion

  6. Examples

  7. Generalisations

  8. Numbers

  9. References and quotations

  10. Style

  11. Synonyms

  12. Visual information

Part 3: Accuracy in Writing

  1. Abbreviations

  2. Adverbs

  3. Articles

  4. Caution

  5. Conjunctions

  6. Formality in verbs

  7. Modal verbs

  8. Nationality language

  9. Nouns and adjectives

  10. Nouns: countable and uncountable

  11. Passives

  12. Prefixes and suffixes

  13. Prepositions

  14. Prepositions after verbs

  15. Punctuation

  16. Referring verbs

  17. Relative pronouns

  18. Singular/plural

  19. Tenses

  20. Time words and phrases

Part 4: Writing Models

  1. Formal letters

  2. CVs

  3. Designing and reporting surveys

  4. Comparison essay

  5. Discursive essay

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