Includes glossary of academic words.

"Inside Writing prepares students to produce a variety of academic texts, while focusing on key academic vocabulary from the Academic Word List.Each unit of Inside Writing features examples of authentic academic text types, develops writing techniques such as analyzing audience and purpose, and teaches target vocabulary from the Academic Word List" (Publisher's website).

Unit 1: Building a future
Content area: Engineering
Writing skills: Descriptive language; Basic paragraph structure
Writing models: Two travel writing articles about structures
Grammar: Parts of speech
Vocabulary activities

Unit 2: Get the right advice
Content area: Medicine
Writing skills: Problem-solution organization; Asking for and giving advice
Writing Models: An advice column letter and response
Grammar: Compound sentences
Vocabulary activities

Unit 3: Marketing in color
Content area: Marketing
Writing skills: Main ideas and details; Summarizing
Writing Models: An article and a summary of an article
Grammar: Gerunds
Vocabulary activities

Unit 4: Being prepared
Content area: Sociology
Writing skills: Supporting opinions; Topic sentences
Writing Models: Two letters to the editor about an earthquake warning system
Grammar: Modals
Vocabulary activities

Unit 5: Can dreams come true?
Content area: Psychology
Writing skills: Analysing a narrative; Using hooks
Writing Model: A narrative about dreams and memory
Grammar: Present perfect
Vocabulary activities

Unit 6: The wild world of animals
Content area: Science
Writing skills: Analyzing test questions and responses;
Selecting relevant information
Writing Models: A science test and the student answers
Grammar: Count and noncount nouns
Vocabulary activities

Unit 7: Are superstores the answer?
Content area: Business
Writing skills: Comparisons; Sentence variety
Writing Model: A critical review from a consummer website
Grammar: Comparative forms of adjectives
Vocabulary activities

Unit 8: Understanding brain injuries
Content area: Neuroscience
Writing skills: Analyzing audience; Organizing information
Writing Models: Analyzing Audience; Organizing Information
Grammar: Real conditionals
Vocabulary activities

Unit 9: Our thirst for water
Content area: Oceanography
Writing skills: Describing a process; Academic language
Writing Model: A scientific article about desalination
Grammar: Word That Signal a Contrast
Vocabulary activities

Unit 10: How our bodies protect us
Content area: Physiology
Writing skills: Cause and effect; Paragraphing
Writing Model: A blog about yawning
Grammar: Adverb clauses of reason and result
Vocabulary activities

Index: Academic word list

Summary

Develop writing skills and acquire the academic word list

Explicit writing skills prepare students for academic writing

Analysis of writing models creates independent writers

Grammar and vocabulary instruction strengthens students' writing