Moore, Julie

Oxford Academic Vocabulary Practice : Upper-intermediate B2-C1 / Julie Moore. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2017. - 144 p. : ill. (col.) ; 27 cm. - OAVP .

"Learn and practise the words you need for academic writing" - Cover page.

Includes an answer key and a glossary.

"Oxford Academic Vocabulary Practice is for students who want to study any subject in English at university level. 250 activities help you learn and practice over 650 key words that you need to use in your written work. The vocabulary is sourced from the Oxford Corpus of Academic English - an 85-million-word corpus of academic sources. It shows how words are used across the four main subject areas of physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Authentic texts, showing how the words are used in academic writing
Highlighting of words from the Academic Word List
650-word glossary with definitions and phonetics for all key words
Useful reference sections on collocations, affixes and dependent prepositions
Complete answer key to all exercises CONTENTS Introduction Section 1 ACADEMIC STUDY Unit 1 University study
Unit 2 Academic disciplines 1
Unit 3 Academic disciplines 2
Unit 4 Structuring an assignment
Unit 5 Describing visual data
Unit 6 Research in the sciences
Unit 7 Research in social sciences
Review 1 Units 1-7 Section 2 DESCRIBING KEY CONCEPTS
Unit 8 Classification
Unit 9 Structure
Unit 10 Time
Unit 11 Starting and finishing
Unit 12 Trends
Unit 13 Change
Unit 14 Place
Unit 15 People
Unit 16 Quantity Review 2 Units 8-16 Section 3 ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION
Unit 17 Cause and effect
Unit 18 Compare and contrast
Unit 19 Problem and solution
Unit 20 Evidence
Unit 21 Theory and concepts
Unit 22 Critical thinking
Unit 23 Belief and opinion
Unit 24 Positive evaluation
Unit 25 Negative evaluation
Review 3 Units 17-25 Section 4 VOCABULARY SKILLS
Unit 26 Word families
Unit 27 Nouns and noun phrases
Unit 28 Verbs in academic writing
Unit 29 Dependent prepositions
Unit 30 Affixes
Unit 31 Collocation
Unit 32 Synonyms
Review 3 Units 26-32 Section 5 FUNCTIONS IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Unit 33 Hedging
Unit 34 Emphasis
Unit 35 Citation
Unit 36 Linking
Review 4 Units 33-36 Section 6 ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES
Unit 37 Maths and statistics
Unit 38 Science and engineering
Unit 39 Medicine
Unit 40 Social sciences
Unit 41 Law
Unit 42 Politics
Unit 43 Business
Unit 44 Economics and finance
Unit 45 Language and communication
Review 5 Units 37-45 Academic and language terms Collocations Dependent prepositions Affixes Answer key Glossary

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9780194000918 (Student Book) 0194000915 (Student Book)


English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
English language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Vocabulary.
Academic writing.
B2-C1 (CEFR).
Upper-intermediate.

PE1128 / .M6 2017

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