Grammar choices for graduate and professional writers / Nigel A. Caplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caplan, Nigel A., author.

Series:

Michigan series in English for academic & professional purposes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.

English language.

Academic writing--Problems, exercises, etc.

Academic writing.

English language--Rhetoric.

Genre:

Einführung.

exercise books.

Problems and exercises.

Physical Description:

x, 181 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, [2012]

Summary:

This book describes the language of advanced academic writing with more than 300 real examples from succesful graduate students and from published texts including corpora. It is written for graduate students, including MBA, master's and doctoral candidates as well as post-doctoral researchers and faculty.

Contents:

1. Approach to Academic Written Grammar

Unit 1 Preview Test

Grammar Awareness: Report

1.1. Clause Structure

1.2. Noun Phrase Structure

1.3. Word Form

1.4. Verbs and Complements

1.5. Action Verbs

1.6. Reporting Verbs

1.7. Linking Verbs

1.8. Three Levels of Meaning

2. Clause Combination

Unit 2 Preview Test

Grammar Awareness: Definition

2.1. Types of Clauses

2.2. Equal and Unequal Clauses

2.3. Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses

2.4. -ing Clauses

2.5. Logic and Clause Combination

2.6. Summary of Punctuation

2.7. Fragments and Run-Ons

3. Embedded, Noun, and Complement Clauses

Unit 3 Preview Test

Grammar Awareness: The Introduction

3.1. Embedded Clauses (Restrictive Relative Clauses)

3.2. Reduced Embedded Clauses

3.3. Noun Clauses

3.4. Complement Noun Clauses

3.5. To Non-Finite Clauses and Subjunctive Clauses

3.6. Common Problems

4. Verb Forms

Unit 4 Preview Test

Grammar Awareness: Literature Review

4.1. Summary of Verb Tenses

4.2. Present and Past Simple Tenses

4.3. Present Perfect Tense

4.4. Writing about the Future

4.5. Other Tenses and Verb Forms

4.6. Passive Voice

4.7. Common Problems with Verb Tenses

4.8. Subject-Verb Agreement

4.9. Subject-Verb Inversion

5. Noun Phrase

Unit 5 Preview Test

Grammar Awareness: Title and Abstract

5.1. Count and Non-Count Nouns

5.2. Articles

5.3. Generic Reference

5.4. Indefinite Reference

5.5. Definite Reference

5.6. Quantifiers

5.7. Adjectives

5.8. Nominalization

6. Hedging, Boosting, and Positioning

Unit 6 Preview Test

Grammar Awareness: Data Commentary

6.1. Modal Verbs

6.2. Would

6.3. Adverbs

6.4. Conditionals

6.5. Comparatives, Superlatives, and Equatives

6.6. Evaluative Language

7. Collocation and Corpus Searching

Unit 7 Preview Test

Grammar Awareness: Essay

7.1. Writing Using a Corpus

7.2. Prepositions

7.3. Verb-Noun Collocations

7.4. Noun-Adjective and Noun-Noun Collocations

7.5. Skeletal Sentences

8. Beyond the Sentence

Grammar Awareness: Textbook

8.1. Information Flow

8.2. Theme

8.3. Controlling the Theme

8.4. Paragraph Patterns.

Notes:

"Grammar Choices is cross-referenced with Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd edition (Swales & Feak, 2012)."--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180).

ISBN:

9780472035014

0472035010

OCLC:

806014169