Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers, Second Edition Contributor(s): Caplan, Nigel A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472037315 ISBN-13: 9780472037315 Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
Series: Michigan English for Academic & Professional Purposes |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.9" W x 9.9" (1.00 lbs) 216 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Grammar Choices is a different kind of grammar book: It is written for graduate students, including MBA, master's, and doctoral candidates, as well as postdoctoral researchers and faculty. Additionally, it describes the language of advanced academic writing with more than 300 real examples from successful graduate students and from published texts, including corpora. Each of the eight units in Grammar Choices contains: an overview of the grammar topic; a preview test that allows students to assess their control of the target grammar and teachers to diagnose areas of difficulty; an authentic example of graduate-student writing showing the unit grammar in use; clear descriptions of essential grammar structures using the framework of functional grammar, cutting-edge research in applied linguistics, and corpus studies; vocabulary relevant to the grammar point is introduced--for example, common verbs in the passive voice, summary nouns used with this/these, and irregular plural nouns; authentic examples for every grammar point from corpora and published texts; exercises for every grammar point that help writers develop grammatical awareness and use, including completing sentences, writing, revising, paraphrasing, and editing; and a section inviting writers to investigate discipline-specific language use and apply it to an academic genre. Among the changes in the Second Edition are:
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