Pt. I. Academic Text and Teaching Second Language Writing -- 1. The Importance of Text in Written Academic Discourse: Ongoing Goals in Teaching ESL Skills -- 2. Student Writing Tasks and Written Academic Genres -- 3. Curriculum for Teaching the Language Features of Academic Writing -- Pt. II. Sentences and Their Parts: Lexis and Grammar -- 4. Sentences, Phrases, and Text Construction -- 5. Nouns and the Noun Phrase -- 6. More on the Noun Phrase: Pronouns -- 7. Teaching Verb Tenses and Voice in Text Cohesion -- 8. Lexical Classes of Verbs: Meanings and Text Functions -- 9. Adjectives and Adverbs in Academic Discourse -- Pt. III. Text and Discourse Flow: The Sentence and Beyond -- 10. Background Discourse and Information: Subordinate Clauses -- 11. Rhetorical Features of Text: Cohesion and Coherence -- 12. Hedging in Academic Text in English
Summary
"The book is designed as a text for courses that prepare teachers to work with post-secondary EAP students, and as a professional resource for teachers of students in EAP courses."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis
Academic writing
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-351) and index
