Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers, Second Edition (Michigan Series in English for Academic & Professional Purposes) - Softcover

Caplan, Nigel A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472037315 ISBN 13: 9780472037315

Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2019

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Grammar Choices is a different kind of grammar book: It is written for graduate students, including MBA, master’s, and doctoral candidates, as well as postdoctoral researchers and faculty. Additionally, it describes the language of advanced academic writing with more than 300 real examples from successful graduate students and from published texts, including corpora.

Each of the eight units in Grammar Choices contains: an overview of the grammar topic; a preview test that allows students to assess their control of the target grammar and teachers to diagnose areas of difficulty; an authentic example of graduate-student writing showing the unit grammar in use; clear descriptions of essential grammar structures using the framework of functional grammar, cutting-edge research in applied linguistics, and corpus studies; vocabulary relevant to the grammar point is introduced―for example, common verbs in the passive voice, summary nouns used with this/these, and irregular plural nouns; authentic examples for every grammar point from corpora and published texts; exercises for every grammar point that help writers develop grammatical awareness and use, including completing sentences, writing, revising, paraphrasing, and editing; and a section inviting writers to investigate discipline-specific language use and apply it to an academic genre.

Among the changes in the Second Edition are:

• new sections on parallel form (Unit 2) and possessives (Unit 5)
• revised and expanded explanations, but particularly regarding verb complementation, complement noun clauses, passive voice, and stance/engagement
• a restructured Unit 2 and significantly revised/updated Unit 7
• new Grammar Awareness tasks in Units 3, 5, and 6
• new exercises plus revision/updating of many others
• self-editing checklists in the Grammar in Your Discipline sections at the end of each unit
• representation of additional academic disciplines (e.g., engineering, management) in example sentences and texts and in exercises.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of Michigan Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0472037315
• ISBN 13: 9780472037315
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
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