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Grammar choices for graduate and professional writers

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This book describes the language of advanced academic writing with more than 300 real examples from succesful graduate students and from published texts including corpora. It is written for graduate students, including MBA, master's and doctoral candidates as well as post-doctoral researchers and faculty.

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Title

Grammar choices for graduate and professional writers

Authors

Caplan, Nigel A.

Subjects

English language--Rhetoric.
Academic writing.

Language

English

Published

Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, 2012.

Publication Desc

x, 181 pages : illustrations ;

ISBN

9780472035014

Series

Michigan series in English for academic & professional purposes

Dimensions

26 cm.

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This book describes the language of advanced academic writing with more than 300 real examples from succesful graduate students and from published texts including corpora. It is written for graduate students, including MBA, master's and doctoral candidates as well as post-doctoral researchers and faculty.

General Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180).

Content Note

1. Approach to Academic Written Grammar -- Unit 1. Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness : Report -- 1.1. Clause Structure -- 1.2. Noun Phrase Structure -- 1.3. Word Form -- 1.4. Verbs and Complements -- 1.5. Action Verbs -- 1.6. Reporting Verbs -- 1.7. Linking Verbs -- 1.8. Three Levels of Meaning -- 2. Clause Combination -- Unit 2. Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness : Definition -- 2.1. Types of Clauses -- 2.2. Equal and Unequal Clauses -- 2.3. Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses -- 2.4. -ing Clauses -- 2.5. Logic and Clause Combination -- 2.6. Summary of Punctuation -- 2.7. Fragments and Run-Ons -- 3. Embedded, Noun, and Complement Clauses -- Unit 3. Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness : The Introduction -- 3.1. Embedded Clauses (Restrictive Relative Clauses) -- 3.2. Reduced Embedded Clauses -- 3.3. Noun Clauses -- 3.4. Complement Noun Clauses -- 3.5. To Non-Finite Clauses and Subjunctive Clauses -- 3.6. Common Problems -- 4. Verb Forms -- Unit 4. Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness : Literature Review -- 4.1. Summary of Verb Tenses -- 4.2. Present and Past Simple Tenses -- 4.3. Present Perfect Tense -- 4.4. Writing about the Future -- 4.5. Other Tenses and Verb Forms -- 4.6. Passive Voice -- 4.7. Common Problems with Verb Tenses -- 4.8. Subject-Verb Agreement -- 4.9. Subject-Verb Inversion -- 5. Noun Phrase -- Unit 5. Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness : Title and Abstract -- 5.1. Count and Non-Count Nouns -- 5.2. Articles -- 5.3. Generic Reference -- 5.4. Indefinite Reference -- 5.5. Definite Reference -- 5.6. Quantifiers -- 5.7. Adjectives -- 5.8. Nominalization -- 6. Hedging, Boosting, and Positioning -- Unit 6. Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness : Data Commentary -- 6.1. Modal Verbs -- 6.2. Would -- 6.3. Adverbs -- 6.4. Conditionals -- 6.5. Comparatives, Superlatives, and Equatives -- 6.6. Evaluative Language -- 7. Collocation and Corpus Searching -- Unit 7. Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness : Essay - -7.1. Writing Using a Corpus -- 7.2. Prepositions -- 7.3. Verb-Noun Collocations -- 7.4. Noun-Adjective and Noun-Noun Collocations -- 7.5. Skeletal Sentences -- 8. Beyond the Sentence -- Grammar Awareness : Textbook -- 8.1. Information Flow -- 8.2. Theme -- 8.3. Controlling the Theme -- 8.4. Paragraph Patterns.