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Exploring academic English : a workbook for student essay writing / Jennifer Thurstun and Christopher N. Candlin.
LIBRA PE1478 .T48 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thurstun, Jennifer
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Academic writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Academic writing.
- Report writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Report writing.
- Genre:
- handbooks.
- Handbooks and manuals
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 142 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney, NSW : National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, [1997]
- Summary:
- Designed to help students write academic essays by focusing on the vocabulary used for essay writing. The selection of the vocabulary is based on frequent usage in prfessional academic writing and the focus is not esoteric or ssubject-specific, so the book can be used by students of any tertiary subject.
- Contents:
- 1. Stating the topic
- Issues
- Factor
- Concept
- 2. Referring to the literature
- Evidence
- Research
- Source
- 3. Reporting the research of others
- According to
- Claim
- Suggest
- 4. Discussing processes undertaken in a study
- Identification
- Analysis
- Criteria
- 5. Expressing opinions tentatively
- May
- Possible
- Unlikely
- Probably
- 6. Drawing conclusions and summarising
- Concluding
- Summarising
- Cleatr that, thus.
- Notes:
- Erratum tipped in.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 142).
- ISBN:
- 1864083743
- 9781864083743
- OCLC:
- 39836102
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