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Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing

By: Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the nature of grammatical complexity, demonstrating that embedded phrasal structures are as important as embedded dependent clauses. The authors also...
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Academic writing: A Handbook for International Students, Fifth Edition

By: Stephen Bailey Now in its fifth edition, Academic Writing helps international students succeed in writing essays and reports for their English-language academic courses. Thoroughly revised and updated, it is designed to let teachers and students easily find the topics they need, both in the classroom and for...
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REASON TO WRITE: Applying critical thinking to academic writing

By: Gina L. Vallis This handbook is a practical guide designed to offer students the means to apply critical thinking to academic writing. Critical thinking is a challenging term. Sometimes it is presented in relationship to formal logic, which is too rigid to use as a strategy for...
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From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Practical Guide, 4th Edition

By: Stuart Greene, April Lidinsky From Inquiry to Academic Writing helps students understand academic culture and its ways of reading, thinking, and writing. With a practical and now widely proven step-by-step approach, this text demystifies cross-curricular thinking and writing. The fourth edition provides extensive coverage of academic habits...
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Stylish Academic Writing

By: Helen Sword Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty...
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