Swales, John.
Academic Writing for Graduate Students : Essential Tasks and Skills - A Course for Nonnative Speakers of English / John M. Swales and Christine B. Feak ; Carolyn G. Madden and John S. Swales (Series Editors) ; Ann M. Johns (Advisor to the Series) - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1994. - 253 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Michigan Series in English for Academic and Specific Purposes .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-248) and index.
"This text is specifically designed to help nonnative graduate students improve their academic writing in English. It consists of eight linked units plus three appendixes. The units start with writing at the paragraph level and conclude with the construction of a research paper. The genre-based approach allows detailed attention to the purposes, structures, and styles of particular kinds of texts. In addition, the approach is strategic; it assumes that graduate students need to write in ways that enhance their credibility in the eyes of their instructors. Academic Writing for Graduate Students does not neglect areas of academic grammar and vocabulary found to be troublesome for nonnative speakers of English. These are handled through "Language Focus" sections so placed in the text that they tie in with the wider rhetorical objectives.
In addition, Academic Writing for Graduate Students has several other special features:
It is based on the growing body of research literature deadling with the features of academic and research English.
It builds on the high-level analytic skills typical of its target audience. In particular, it helps students to learn to scrutinize texts from their own chosen fields so that they can come to recognize the discourse conventions operating in that field.
The activities are strongly and imaginatively task based.
It gives attention to certain writing situations not covered by previous textbooks; these include using electronic mail and producing critiques and conference abstracts." (Book Cover)
TABLE OF CONTENTS :
Introduction
UNIT ONE: An Approach to Academic Writing Audience
Purpose and Strategy
Organization
Style
Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift
Language Focus: Formal Grammar and Style
Flow
Language Focus: Linking Words and Phrases
Language Focus: this + Summary Word
Presentation
Positioning
UNIT TWO: Writing General-Specific Texts
Sentence Definitions
Language Focus: The Grammar of Definitions
Extended Definitions
Contrastive Definitions
Comparative Definitions
Generalizations
UNIT THREE: Problem, Process, and Solution
The Structure of Problem-Solution Texts Language Focus: Midposition Adverbs
Problem Statements
Procedures and Processes
Language Focus: Verbs and Agents in the Solution
Language Focus: -ing Clauses of Result
Language Focus: Indirect Questions
UNIT FOUR: Data Commentary
Strength of Claim
Structure of Data Commentary
Location Elements and Summaries
Language Focus: Verbs in Indicative and Informative Summaries
Language Focus: Linking as-Clauses
Highlighting Statements
Qualifications and Strength of Claim
Organization
Language Focus: Qualifying Comparisons
Concluding a Commentary
Language Focus: Deadling with "Problems"
Dealing with Graphs
Language Focus: Referring to Lines on Graphs
Dealing with Chronological Data
Language Focus: Prepositions of Time
UNIT FIVE: Writing Summaries
Writing an Assignment Summary
Language Focus: The First Sentence in a Summary
Language Focus: Nominal that-Clauses
Language Focus: Summary Reminder Phrases
Some Notes on Plagiarism
Comparative Summaries
UNIT SIX: Writing Critiques
Requirements for Writing Critiques
Language Focus: Unreal Conditionals
Language Focus: Evaluative Language
Critical Reading
Writing Critiques
Language Focus: Inversions
Language Focus: Special Verb Agreements
Reaction Papers
Language Focus: Scare Quotes
Reviews
A Final Look at the ESL Literature
UNIT SEVEN: Constructing a Research Paper I
Overview of the Research Paper
Methods
Language Focus: Imperatives in Research Papers
Writing Up a Methods Section
Methods Sections across Disciplines
Language Focus: Hyphens in Noun Phrases
Results
Commentary in Results Sections
UNIT EIGHT: Constructing a Research Paper II
Introduction Sections
Creating a Research Space
Language Focus: Claiming Centrality
Reviewing the Literature
Language Focus: Citation and Tense
Variation in Reviewing the Literature
Move 2 - Establishing a Niche
Language Focus: Negative Openings
Occupying the Niche
Language Focus: Tense and Purpose Statements
Completing and Introduction
Discussion Sections
Opening a Discussion Section
Language Focus: Levels of Generalization
Limitations in Discussions
Cycles of Moves
Acknowledgments
Titles
Abstracts
Language Focus: Linguistic Features of Abstracts
Appendixes
One: Articles in Academic Writing
Two: Academic English and Latin Phrases
Three: Electronic Mail
Selected References
Index
0472082639 (pbk)
94060513
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
Academic writing--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
Academic Writing for Graduate Students : Essential Tasks and Skills - A Course for Nonnative Speakers of English / John M. Swales and Christine B. Feak ; Carolyn G. Madden and John S. Swales (Series Editors) ; Ann M. Johns (Advisor to the Series) - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1994. - 253 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Michigan Series in English for Academic and Specific Purposes .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-248) and index.
"This text is specifically designed to help nonnative graduate students improve their academic writing in English. It consists of eight linked units plus three appendixes. The units start with writing at the paragraph level and conclude with the construction of a research paper. The genre-based approach allows detailed attention to the purposes, structures, and styles of particular kinds of texts. In addition, the approach is strategic; it assumes that graduate students need to write in ways that enhance their credibility in the eyes of their instructors. Academic Writing for Graduate Students does not neglect areas of academic grammar and vocabulary found to be troublesome for nonnative speakers of English. These are handled through "Language Focus" sections so placed in the text that they tie in with the wider rhetorical objectives.
In addition, Academic Writing for Graduate Students has several other special features:
It is based on the growing body of research literature deadling with the features of academic and research English.
It builds on the high-level analytic skills typical of its target audience. In particular, it helps students to learn to scrutinize texts from their own chosen fields so that they can come to recognize the discourse conventions operating in that field.
The activities are strongly and imaginatively task based.
It gives attention to certain writing situations not covered by previous textbooks; these include using electronic mail and producing critiques and conference abstracts." (Book Cover)
TABLE OF CONTENTS :
Introduction
UNIT ONE: An Approach to Academic Writing Audience
Purpose and Strategy
Organization
Style
Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift
Language Focus: Formal Grammar and Style
Flow
Language Focus: Linking Words and Phrases
Language Focus: this + Summary Word
Presentation
Positioning
UNIT TWO: Writing General-Specific Texts
Sentence Definitions
Language Focus: The Grammar of Definitions
Extended Definitions
Contrastive Definitions
Comparative Definitions
Generalizations
UNIT THREE: Problem, Process, and Solution
The Structure of Problem-Solution Texts Language Focus: Midposition Adverbs
Problem Statements
Procedures and Processes
Language Focus: Verbs and Agents in the Solution
Language Focus: -ing Clauses of Result
Language Focus: Indirect Questions
UNIT FOUR: Data Commentary
Strength of Claim
Structure of Data Commentary
Location Elements and Summaries
Language Focus: Verbs in Indicative and Informative Summaries
Language Focus: Linking as-Clauses
Highlighting Statements
Qualifications and Strength of Claim
Organization
Language Focus: Qualifying Comparisons
Concluding a Commentary
Language Focus: Deadling with "Problems"
Dealing with Graphs
Language Focus: Referring to Lines on Graphs
Dealing with Chronological Data
Language Focus: Prepositions of Time
UNIT FIVE: Writing Summaries
Writing an Assignment Summary
Language Focus: The First Sentence in a Summary
Language Focus: Nominal that-Clauses
Language Focus: Summary Reminder Phrases
Some Notes on Plagiarism
Comparative Summaries
UNIT SIX: Writing Critiques
Requirements for Writing Critiques
Language Focus: Unreal Conditionals
Language Focus: Evaluative Language
Critical Reading
Writing Critiques
Language Focus: Inversions
Language Focus: Special Verb Agreements
Reaction Papers
Language Focus: Scare Quotes
Reviews
A Final Look at the ESL Literature
UNIT SEVEN: Constructing a Research Paper I
Overview of the Research Paper
Methods
Language Focus: Imperatives in Research Papers
Writing Up a Methods Section
Methods Sections across Disciplines
Language Focus: Hyphens in Noun Phrases
Results
Commentary in Results Sections
UNIT EIGHT: Constructing a Research Paper II
Introduction Sections
Creating a Research Space
Language Focus: Claiming Centrality
Reviewing the Literature
Language Focus: Citation and Tense
Variation in Reviewing the Literature
Move 2 - Establishing a Niche
Language Focus: Negative Openings
Occupying the Niche
Language Focus: Tense and Purpose Statements
Completing and Introduction
Discussion Sections
Opening a Discussion Section
Language Focus: Levels of Generalization
Limitations in Discussions
Cycles of Moves
Acknowledgments
Titles
Abstracts
Language Focus: Linguistic Features of Abstracts
Appendixes
One: Articles in Academic Writing
Two: Academic English and Latin Phrases
Three: Electronic Mail
Selected References
Index
0472082639 (pbk)
94060513
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
Academic writing--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.