Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills (Michigan Series in English for Academic & Professional Purposes) - Softcover

Swales, John M.; Feak, Christine B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472088564 ISBN 13: 9780472088560

Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The second edition of this successful guide to writing for graduate-and undergraduate-students has been modified to include updates and replacements of older data sets; an increased range of disciplines with tasks such as nursing, marketing, and art history; discussions of discourse analysis; a broader discussion of e-mail use that includes current e-mail practices.

Like its predecessor, this edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students
" explains understanding the intended audience, the purpose of the paper, and academic genres.
" includes the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising.
" shows how to write summaries and critiques.
" features "language focus" sections that address linguistic elements as they affect the wider rhetorical objectives.
" helps students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.

The Commentary has also been revised and is available.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of Michigan Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0472088564
• ISBN 13: 9780472088560
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 331
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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