Academic Writing for Graduate Students
John Swales, now officially retired from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he was also the Director of the English Language Institute for many years. He has written several books, the first of which was "Writing Scientific English" in 1971 and the most recent of which was "Incidents in an Educational Life" in 2009.
The third edition of this popular writing guide for graduate and undergraduate students has been updated to include older data set updates and replacements; an expanded range of disciplines with tasks such as nursing, marketing, and art history; discourse analysis discussions; and a broader discussion of e-mail use that includes current e-mail practices.
The third edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students, like its predecessor, 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; demonstrates how to write summaries and critiques; includes Language Focus sections that address linguistic elements as they affect the larger rhetorical objectives; and assists students in positioning themselves. The book is regarded as one of the best books on academic writing.
Among the many changes in the third edition are:
- newer, longer, and more authentic texts and examples
- greater discipline variety in texts (added texts from hard sciences and engineering)
- more in-depth treatment of research articles
- greater emphasis on vocabulary issues
- revised flow-of-ideas section
- additional tasks that require students to do their own research
- more corpus-informed content
Author: John M. Swales
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