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Academic Writing For Graduate Students : Essential Tasks And Skills - 2nd edition

by John M. Swales and Christine B. Feak

Academic Writing For Graduate Students : Essential Tasks And Skills (ISBN10: 0472088564; ISBN13: 9780472088560)
ISBN13: 978-0472088560
ISBN10: 0472088564

Summary: 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

expl ...show moreains 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. ...show less

Edition/Copyright: 2ND 04
Cover: Paperback
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 03/25/2004

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