The ability to understand and be understood when communicating with professors and with native speakers is crucial to academic success. Academic Interactions focuses on actual academic speaking events, particularly classroom interactions and office hours, and gives students practice improving the ways that they communicate in a college/university setting.
Academic Interactions addresses skills like using names and names of locations correctly on campus, giving directions, understanding instructors and their expectations, interacting during office hours, participating in class and in seminars, and delivering formal and informal presentations. In addition, advice is provided for communicating via email with professors and working in groups with native speakers (including negotiating tasks in groups).
The text uses transcripts from MICASE (the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) to ensure that students learn the vocabulary and communication strategies that will be most effective in their academic pursuits. Units also feature language use issues like ellipsis, hedging, and apologies. The book is packaged with a DVD that provides models for successful academic interactions.

Academic Interactions: Communicating on Campus (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Reference

Feak, Christine

Rohlck, Theresa N.

Reinhart, Susan M.

English as a Second Language

University of Michigan Press/ELT

Today's research world demands a variety of different abstracts to serve different purposes. As a result, writing abstracts can be a difficult task for graduate and international students, researchers, and even practiced authors. Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts is designed to demystify the construction of this essential writing form and to equip scholars with the skills to summarize their work in clear and compelling ways.
This volume represents a revision and expansion of the material on writing abstracts that appeared in English in Today's Research World.
The Abstracts volume focuses on abstracts for research articles before addressing abstracts for short communications, conferences, and PhD dissertations. It also covers keywords, titles, and author names. Wherever appropriate within the text, Language Focus sections discuss options and provide tips for meeting specific linguistic challenges posed by the writing of different types of abstracts.

Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts (Volume 1) (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Swales, John M.

Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review is concerned with the writing of a literature review and is not designed to address any of the preliminary processes leading up to the actual writing of the literature review.
This volume represents a revision and expansion of the material on writing literature reviews that appeared in English in Today's Research World.
This volume progresses from general to specific issues in the writing of literature reviews. It opens with some orientations that raise awareness of the issues that surround the telling of a research story. Issues of structure and matters of language, style, and rhetoric are then discussed. Sections on metadiscourse, citation, and paraphrasing and summarizing are included.

Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review (Volume 2) (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

This version of the book matches 9780472033324 except it is not packaged with a DVD. All references to the DVD in the text have been replaced with "videos." Video access sold separately. (Email esladmin@umich.edu for access.) The ability to understand and be understood when communicating with professors and with native speakers is crucial to academic success. Academic Interactions focuses on actual academic speaking events, particularly classroom interactions and office hours, and gives students practice improving the ways that they communicate in a college/university setting.
Academic Interactions addresses skills like using names and names of locations correctly on campus, giving directions, understanding instructors and their expectations, interacting during office hours, participating in class and in seminars, and delivering formal and informal presentations. In addition, advice is provided for communicating via email with professors and working in groups with native speakers (including negotiating tasks in groups).
The text uses transcripts from MICASE (the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) to ensure that students learn the vocabulary and communication strategies that will be most effective in their academic pursuits. Units also feature language use issues like ellipsis, hedging, and apologies.

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Navigating Academia is a bit different from the other volumes in the series because it focuses on the supporting genres that facilitate the more public genres that form the building blocks of an academic and/or research career. Included are statements of purpose for graduate school applications, letters of recommendation, and responses to journal reviewers. One feature that these genres have in common is that they are largely hidden from public view; it is difficult to find examples of them in university libraries. Although guidance about these genres can increasingly be found on the Internet, this guidance is often too general to be helpful in an individual particular situation. This is unfortunate because in almost all cases, the individual needs to be seen as both a serious scholar, researcher, or instructor (whether beginning or getting established) and as a collegial but objective person. As a result, many of these academic communications need to be carefully considered, particularly with regard to the likely effect this communication will have on its intended recipients, who, more often than not, are established figures in the field (as with a job application letter). Because of the roles of these genres, this volume also differs somewhat from the others in that it is as much concerned with social academic practice as it is with more formal academic texts. This volume represents a revision and expansion of the material on academic correspondence that appeared in English in Today's Research World.

Navigating Academia: Writing Supporting Genres (Volume 4) (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Research article introductions are central to Creating Contexts: Writing across Genres with the CaRS (creating a research space) model used as a starting point. This volume focuses on introductions for other kinds of texts that are also part of the graduate student writing experience such as course papers and critiques, proposals, and dissertations. This volume represents a revision and expansion of the material on introductions that appeared in English in Today's Research World. The material presented in this volume is appropriate for graduate students and others already working in their chosen academic fields. The material has, in fact, been used with each of these groups in both writing courses and writing workshops. We believe that the material would also be suitable for those wishing to pursue a course of self-study. To target these different possible uses, we have included a variety of topics and tasks that we hope will deepen users’ understanding of how to create a writing context for their work. Tasks range from evaluating text commentaries to open-ended questions and have been designed to generate lively classroom or workshop discussion as well as thoughtful consideration by an individual user.

Creating Contexts: Writing Introductions across Genres (Volume 3) (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

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 &amp; 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
<ul>
<li>a summary of the main points of the unit along with a list of topics covered.</li>
<li>a synopsis of activities, divided into Language Focus sections and description of tasks.</li>
<li>some general notes designed to capture the character of the unit, to indicate alternative activities, or to anticipate problems that may arise. </li>
<li>detailed commentary and discussion of individual tasks, including model or sample answers where possible. </li>
</ul>

Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Ed.: Essential Tasks and Skills (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills: A Course for Nonnative Speakers of English (English for Specific Purposes)

Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

The authors of Academic Writing for Graduate Students have written a book for the next level of second language writing. English in Today's Research World offers students a very high level of writing instruction, with a specific focus on the projects students undertake--such as dissertations and conference abstracts--at the end of their university work or as they begin careers in research or academia. In addition to instruction on writing for publication, English in Today's Research World provides needed advice on applications, recommendations, and requests--types of communications that are particularly vulnerable to influences from national cultural expectations and conventions and that, therefore, place the NNS writer at increased disadvantage. The text is both a reference manual and a course book, so that researchers can continue to use the book after they have completed their formal education. New ESL/EFL teachers can use English in Today's Research World as a reference book for themselves or as a teaching aid in the classroom.

English in Today's Research World: A Writing Guide (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

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. The Commentary has also been revised and is available.

Academic Writing for Graduate Students, Second Edition: Essential Tasks and Skills (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

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Academic Interactions: Communicating on Campus (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts (Volume 1) (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review (Volume 2) (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Academic Interactions: Communicating on Campus (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Navigating Academia: Writing Supporting Genres (Volume 4) (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Creating Contexts: Writing Introductions across Genres (Volume 3) (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Ed.: Essential Tasks and Skills (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

English in Today's Research World: A Writing Guide (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Academic Writing for Graduate Students, Second Edition: Essential Tasks and Skills (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)