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
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.