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This document provides an overview of the contents of the book "Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition: Essential Skills and Tasks" by John M. Swales and Christine B. Feak. The book covers key aspects of academic writing such as audience, purpose, organization, style, flow, positioning, general to specific and specific to general structures, problem-solution texts, data commentary, writing summaries, critiques, constructing research papers, and more. Each chapter also includes language focuses on grammar, vocabulary, and other linguistic features relevant to academic writing.

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Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition: Essential Skills and Tasks

John M. Swales & Christine B. Feak


http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2173936
Michigan ELT, 2012

Contents
Introduction to the Third Edition vii
UNIT ONE: An Approach to Academic Writing 1
Audience 4
Purpose and Strategy 6
Organization 8
Style 14
Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift—Verbs 17
Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift—Nouns and 20
Other Parts of Speech
Language Focus: Other Stylistic Features 22
Flow 30
Language Focus: Linking Words and Phrases 37
Presentation 48
Positioning 53
UNIT TWO: General-Specific and Specific-General Texts 55
Opening with General Statements 61
Opening with Statistics 64
Opening with Definitions 65
Writing a Definition 65
Some Common Ways to Define in Academic Writing 67
Language Focus: Verbs in Defining and Naming 68
A Brief Look at the Elements of Formal Sentence Definitions 71
Extended Definitions 74
Variations in Definitions 84
Discussions of Schools of Thought 89
Specific-to-General Organization 92
UNIT THREE: Problem, Process, and Solution 100
The Structure of Problem-Solution Texts 101
Language Focus: Mid-Position Adverbs 105
Procedures and Processes 108
Language Focus: -ing Clauses to Indicate Cause and Effect 115
Language Focus: Passive Voice 119
Flow of Ideas in a Process Description 125

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Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition: Essential Skills and Tasks
John M. Swales & Christine B. Feak
http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2173936
Michigan ELT, 2012
iv C ONTENTS

Language Focus: Indirect Questions 133


Introducing the Solution 137
UNIT FOUR: Data Commentary 139
Strength of Claim 139
Structure of Data Commentary 144
Location Elements and Summaries 147
Language Focus: Verbs in Indicative and Informative 149
Location Statements
Language Focus: Linking as Clauses 152
Highlighting Statements 156
Language Focus: An Introduction to Qualifications and 156
Strength of Claim
Language Focus: Specific Ways of Moderating or Qualifying 159
a Claim
Organization 165
Language Focus: Comparisons 167
Concluding a Commentary 172
Language Focus: Dealing with Unexpected Outcomes or “Problems” 174
Dealing with Graphs 177
Dealing with Chronological Data 181
Language Focus: Prepositions of Time 183
UNIT FIVE: Writing Summaries 188
Considerations before Writing a Summary 189
Some Notes on Plagiarism 196
Paraphrasing 202
Careful Use of Synonyms 206
Language Focus: Identifying the Source 211
Language Focus: Summary Reminder Phrases 216
Syntheses of More than One Source 220
Language Focus: Showing Similarities and Differences 225
UNIT SIX: Writing Critiques 228
Book Reviews 230
Language Focus: Stating Opinions 239
Language Focus: Evaluative Language 242
Evaluating a Published Article 248
Language Focus: Unreal Conditionals 260
Language Focus: Evaluative Language Revisited 262
Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition: Essential Skills and Tasks
John M. Swales & Christine B. Feak
http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2173936
Michigan ELT, 2012
C ONTENTS v

Critical Reading 265


Language Focus: Beginning the Critique 268
Language Focus: Inversions 269
Reaction Papers 270
Language Focus: Non-Standard Quotation Marks (Scare Quotes) 274
A Few Thoughts on Manuscript Reviews for a Journal 276
UNIT SEVEN: Constructing a Research Paper I 277
Types of Journal Publication 278
Short Communications (SCs) in Disciplines that Report Fieldwork 280
Longer Research Papers 284
Methods Sections 289
Language Focus: Linking Phrases in Methods Sections 301
Results Sections 305
Language Focus: Another Look at Location Statements 309
Language Focus: Special Verb Agreements 314
Language Focus: Making Comparisons 316
UNIT EIGHT: Constructing a Research Paper II 327
Introductions 327
Creating a Research Space 331
Language Focus: Citation and Tense 344
Language Focus: Negative Openings in Move 2 350
Language Focus: Purpose Statements and Tense 356
Discussion Sections 363
Language Focus: Levels of Generalization 371
Language Focus: Expressions of Limitation 372
Unfinished Business 378

Appendixes 390
Appendix One: The Grammar of Definitions 390
Appendix Two: Articles in Academic Writing 395
Appendix Three: Academic English and Latin Phrases 403

References 407

Index 415

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