front cover of Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition
Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition
Essential Tasks and Skills
John M. Swales & Christine B. Feak
University of Michigan Press, 2012
Like its predecessor, the third edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students explains understanding the intended audience, the purpose of the paper, and academic genres; includes the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising; shows how to write summaries and critiques; features Language Focus sections that address linguistic elements as they affect the wider rhetorical objectives; and helps students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.

Among the many changes in the third edition:
*newer, longer, and more authentic texts and examples
*greater discipline variety in texts (added texts from hard sciences and engineering)
*more in-depth treatment of research articles
*greater emphasis on vocabulary issues
*revised flow-of-ideas section
*additional tasks that require students to do their own research
*more corpus-informed content
*binding that allows the book to lay flat when open.

The Commentary (teacher's notes and key) (978-0-472-03506-9) has been revised expanded. 

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Academic Writing for Graduate Students
Essential Tasks and Skills
Christine B. Feak and John M. Swales
University of Michigan Press, 2027

For decades, Academic Writing for Graduate Students has introduced writers to the skills they need for successful academic writing. Now covering academic writing across an even broader range of disciplines, the new edition focuses on recurring rhetorical patterns found in academic texts and on the ways writers consider their audience, purpose, and disciplinary expectations as they make choices.

The book brings together short readings from published, student, and pedagogically-constructed texts with guided tasks to analyze how texts are organized and how claims are presented and supported. The first four units prepare students for academic writing while the following four units dive into genre-specific activities, such as the writing of summaries, critiques, and different research article sections. Throughout the book, readers will develop their rhetorical consciousness to see how strategic writing choices contribute to author positioning.

In Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 4th Edition, students will:

  • Analyze real student writing for information flow, citation patterns, and authorial stance
  • Learn to recognize different rhetorical patterns, such as cause and effect
  • Engage with different types of writing, such as summaries, critiques, data commentary, book reviews, and research articles
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Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 2d ed.
Essential Tasks and Skills
John M. Swales and Christine B. Feak
University of Michigan Press, 2004
The second edition of this successful guide to writing for graduate-and undergraduate-students has been modified to include updates and replacements of older data sets; an increased range of disciplines with tasks such as nursing, marketing, and art history; discussions of discourse analysis; a broader discussion of e-mail use that includes current e-mail practices.

Like its predecessor, this edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students
"explains understanding the intended audience, the purpose of the paper, and academic genres.
"includes the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising.
"shows how to write summaries and critiques.
"features "language focus" sections that address linguistic elements as they affect the wider rhetorical objectives.
"helps students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.
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front cover of Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Ed.
Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Ed.
Essential Tasks and Skills
John M. Swales & Christine B. Feak
University of Michigan Press, 2012

The Commentary for the third edition of this successful guide to writing has been revised and expanded in many ways to provide more support for instructors; this includes additional tasks for Units Two and Four to supplement the main text. However, the collegial tone established in previous Commentaries between Swales & Feak and instructors has been retained.

This volume contains commentaries on each of the eight units plus the two appendixes. The format for each unit includes

  • a summary of the main points of the unit along with a list of topics covered.
  • a synopsis of activities, divided into Language Focus sections and description of tasks.
  • some general notes designed to capture the character of the unit, to indicate alternative activities, or to anticipate problems that may arise.
  • detailed commentary and discussion of individual tasks, including model or sample answers where possible.
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Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students
Essential Tasks and Skills
Christine B. Feak and John M. Swales
University of Michigan Press, 2027

Now in its 4th edition, the Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students remains an important companion text. Useful for instructors as well as students and scholars using Academic Writing for Graduate Students for self-study, the Commentary includes a synopsis of what each unit attempts to achieve, further discussion of certain points, and sample responses to the more controlled tasks. Many of the responses or model texts come directly from class discussion or from submitted homework, which students generously offered for inclusion. In response to numerous requests, the authors have expanded the number of teaching suggestions included at the end of each unit for this edition.

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