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Guidebook to academic writing

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"This innovative guidebook is an accessible and concise introduction to discipline-specific academic language. Using authentic texts written by both novice and expert writers and 'translating' current, corpus-based research of academic language into a practical guide, the book gives students the tools to navigate the linguistic features of various disciplines, emphasizing the humanities and sciences, but also discussing example texts from the social sciences"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Why and how you might want to use this handbook? -- The evolving handbook : what Is the purpose of a handbook? -- What is academic English? -- What words are typical in academic writing? -- How and why do we create longer sentences? -- How do we achieve economy? What makes academic language particularly hard? -- How and why do we add detail to nouns and verbs using words and phrases? -- How and why do we guide readers with punctuation? -- How and why do we create effective paragraphs? -- How and why do writers express their point of view, guide readers and interact with them? -- Why and how do we document our research?

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Paraskevas, Cornelia C. Guidebook to academic writing

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:21:10.212060+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23582625

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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