Teaching Academic ESL Writing Practical Techniques in Vocabulary And Grammar

Contents
Preface ix
Part I Academic Text and Teaching Second Language Writing
1 The Iportance of Text in Written Academic 3
Discourse: Ongoing Goals in Teaching ESL Skills
2 Student Writing Tasks and Written Academic Genres 17
3 Curriculum for Teaching the Language Features 33
of Academic Writing
Part II Sentences and Their Parts: Lexis and Grammar
4 Sentences, Phrases, and Text Construction 65
5 Nouns and the Noun Phrase 95
6 More on the Noun Phrase: Pronouns 125
7 Teaching Verb Tenses and Voice in Text Cohesion 143
8 Lexical Classes of Verbs: Meanings and Text Functions 177
9 Adjectives and Adverbs in Academic Discourse 209
Part III Text and Discourse Flow: The Sentence and Beyond
10 Backgrounding Discourse and Information: 241
Subordinate Clauses
11 Rhetorical Features of Text: Cohesion and Coherence 279
12 Hedging in Academic Text in English 313
References 337
Author Index 353
Subject Index 357


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