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Focuses on actual academic speaking events, particularly classroom interactions and office hours, and gives students practice improving the ways that they communicate in a college/university setting. This book addresses skills like using names and names of locations correctly on campus, giving directions and participating in class and in seminars.

Describes the language of advanced academic writing with more than 300 real examples from successful graduate students and from published texts. Activities encourage students to investigate the language choices that are typical of their own academic disciplines or professional fields through structured reading and writing activities.

Coverage includes understanding the intended audience, and academic genres; the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising; how to write summaries and critiques; and helping students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.

Progresses from general to specific issues in the writing of literature reviews. This book introduces some orientations that raise awareness of the issues that surround the telling of a research story. It discusses issues of structure and matters of language, style, and rhetoric, includes sections on metadiscourse, citation, and paraphrasing.

Focuses on abstracts for research articles before addressing abstracts for short communications, conferences, and PhD dissertations. This title covers keywords, titles, and author names. It discusses options and provides tips for meeting specific linguistic challenges posed by the writing of different types of abstracts.