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Academic Writing and Grammar for Students [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 216 pages, height x width: 242x170 mm, weight: 520 g
  • Sērija : Sage Study Skills Series
  • Izdošanas datums: 17-Apr-2013
  • Izdevniecība: Sage Publications Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1446210901
  • ISBN-13: 9781446210901
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 216 pages, height x width: 242x170 mm, weight: 520 g
  • Sērija : Sage Study Skills Series
  • Izdošanas datums: 17-Apr-2013
  • Izdevniecība: Sage Publications Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1446210901
  • ISBN-13: 9781446210901
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Osmond (Brunel University) offers practical advice for college students in this writing guide. The clear and clean layout features boxed correct and incorrect examples, tutor tips, and key points. After an overview of the basic conventions of academic writing, chapters cover basic grammar, sentence structure, paragraphs, critical thinking, and writing for clarity. One chapter is devoted to avoiding common mistakes such as dangling modifiers and comma splices. The referencing chapter gives general tips and offers brief overviews of several systems: the Harvard/author-date system, the Vancouver or numeric referencing, footnotes, and the MLA, APA, and OSCOLA formats. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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'Alex unpacks the complexities of language to provide sound advice on writing for university at all levels. The book ranges from basic grammar to more advanced examples such as the complexities of "hedging". The advice is well supported by examples from a range of disciplines.' - Dr Sue Tangney, Cardiff Metropolitan University

'This exciting new publication helps students understand the requirements of academic writing in today's world. I have no hesitation in recommending this book to all students.' - Penelope Hood, Anglia Ruskin University

This handy guide shows students how to use academic English grammar and punctuation. The author identifies common grammar mistakes and how to avoid them, making extensive use of examples and advice from tutors from a range of subjects. This valuable book enables readers to immediately improve their work at university.

Inside, you will find practical advice on:

  • common mistakes
  • punctuation
  • conciseness
  • proofreading
  • referencing
  • and more.

The advice in the book has been tried and tested through workshops that the author runs with students. It will be useful to undergraduates on a wide range of courses, and will help promote independent learning as well as practical writing skills.

For additional resources and one-to-one advice from Alex 'like' his Facebook page Academic Writing and Grammar for Students: www.facebook.com/academicwritingandgrammarforstudents

Alex Osmond is Academic Skills Adviser and VLE Project Manager at Brunel University.


This clear and practical book on academic grammar shows students how to avoid common mistakes and how to quickly apply this to their essays. It is unique in its focus on English grammar for academic purposes across a range of disciplines.

Recenzijas

Alex unpacks the complexities of language to provide sound advice on writing for university at all levels. The book ranges from basic grammar to more advanced examples such as the complexities of hedging. The advice is well supported by examples from a range of disciplines. - Dr Sue Tangney, Cardiff Metropolitan University





This exciting new publication helps students understand the requirements of academic writing in todays world. I have no hesitation in recommending this book to all students. - Penelope Hood, Anglia Ruskin University

About the Author ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: The Aims of this Book and How to Use It 1(8)
Writing at university
1(2)
What's in this book?
3(1)
Basic conventions of academic writing
4(1)
Basic grammatical concepts
4(1)
Putting sentences together
4(1)
Putting paragraphs together
4(1)
Critical thinking and referencing
4(1)
Conciseness and clarity
5(1)
Common mistakes and how to deal with them
5(1)
Proofreading effectively
5(1)
Notes on the text and the conventions I follow
6(1)
Different subjects
6(1)
Referencing
6(3)
1 Basic Conventions of Academic Writing
9(23)
Using acronyms
11(1)
Establishing objectivity
11(2)
Referencing correctly
13(1)
Avoiding slang/colloquial language
14(5)
Avoiding emotive language
19(4)
Avoiding the first person
23(1)
Avoiding the second person
24(2)
Avoiding contractions
26(1)
Simplicity, clarity and conciseness
27(4)
Further reading
31(1)
2 Basic Grammatical Concepts
32(30)
Types of words
33(1)
Nouns, proper nouns, concrete nouns, abstract nouns and plurals
33(5)
Verbs
38(5)
Pronouns
43(5)
Articles
48(3)
Modifiers (describing words and phrases)
51(4)
Adjectives
55(2)
Adverbs
57(1)
Conjunctions
58(1)
Prepositions
59(2)
Summing up
61(1)
Further reading
61(1)
3 Putting Sentences Together
62(27)
Subject-verb-object
63(3)
Active and passive
66(2)
Removing the subject of the sentence
68(1)
Emphasising the object of the sentence
69(1)
Varying your sentence structure
70(1)
Tense
71(1)
The most common tenses in academic writing
72(2)
Avoiding continuous tenses where possible
74(2)
Hedging
76(2)
Punctuation
78(1)
. The full stop
78(1)
? The question mark
79(2)
! The exclamation mark
81(1)
, The comma
81(1)
The colon
82(1)
; The semi-colon
82(1)
() Brackets/parentheses
83(1)
[ ] Square brackets
84(1)
The hyphen/dash
84(1)
' The apostrophe
84(4)
Further reading
88(1)
4 Putting Paragraphs Together
89(18)
Signposting language
91(5)
Topic sentences and staying on topic
96(9)
What, why, when
105(1)
Further reading
106(1)
5 Critical Thinking and Referencing
107(19)
Referencing
108(3)
The different referencing systems/styles
111(2)
Harvard referencing/the author-date system
113(1)
Vancouver or numeric referencing
114(1)
Footnotes
114(2)
Modern Language Association (MLA) and American Psychological Association (APA) referencing
116(1)
OSCOLA
116(1)
The `p' word: plagiarism
116(1)
Critical thinking
117(5)
More complex referencing techniques
122(1)
Ellipsis
122(1)
Square brackets
123(1)
Summing up
124(1)
Further reading
125(1)
6 Conciseness and Clarity
126(33)
Watch those word counts
128(1)
Redundant phrases
129(1)
Other redundant phrases
130(3)
Avoiding expletive constructions
133(1)
Using simple words instead of complex ones
134(2)
Simple sentences
136(2)
Does this belong here?
138(2)
Meaningless modifiers: `very'/`really'/`extremely'/`severely' (and so on)
140(2)
The future tense/unnecessary signposting
142(1)
Avoiding repetition
143(2)
The active and passive voices
145(3)
Changing negatives to affirmatives
148(1)
Removing excessive `nominalisation'
148(4)
Using the word `this'
152(1)
More examples
153(1)
Example one
153(1)
Example two
154(1)
Example three
154(1)
Example four
155(1)
Example five
156(2)
Further reading
158(1)
7 Common Mistakes and How to Deal With Them
159(29)
Mixed constructions
160(3)
Dangling modifiers
163(4)
Using `It has been said that...'
167(2)
Using `I think/I feel...'
169(3)
Avoiding the word `interesting'
172(2)
Poor presentation of tables and graphs
174(2)
Comma splicing
176(5)
Using `of' instead of `have'
181(2)
The word `of' and possessive replacements
183(2)
`Putting things off'
185(3)
8 Proofreading Effectively
188(11)
Distance yourself from your work
189(1)
Proofread more than once
190(1)
Leave more time than you think you need
191(1)
Read your work aloud
191(1)
Read from your last sentence back
191(1)
Use technology but don't rely on it
192(1)
Be ruthless
193(2)
Proofread for you...
195(2)
...And keep things in context
197(1)
Do your own proofreading
198(1)
Index 199
Alex Osmond worked as an Academic Skills Adviser and Project Manager at two UK institutions: Cardiff Metropolitan University and Brunel University. These two roles involved providing guidance to students focusing on the development of their academic writing. A module that Alex helped devise at Cardiff Metropolitan was nominated for a Times Higher Education Award in Outstanding Student Support. Alex has also taught a wide variety of skills sessions across specific degree programmes, and worked to develop online resources aimed at improving writing skills. 

Subsequently, Alex has worked in research and policy roles in the housing and homelessness sectors in Wales; this work has also involved delivering guest lectures on relevant degree courses, as well as providing guidance to, and supervising, students interested in the sector. Alex remains interested in clarity and conciseness in writing, applying the same insight into the reports and policy documentation he produces now.