Advance in Academic Writing 2 - Student Book with eText & My eLab (12 months)

Advance in Academic Writing is a comprehensive coursebook that prepares students for success in their college and university studies. In each chapter, students read authentic academic texts and develop key analytic skills around the texts. Advance explains in detail a range of different academic writing processes that will help students succeed.

PART 1

Writing and Research: Getting Started

Chapter 1: Seven Stages of the Writing Process

Theme: Academic Writing

¿         What Our Students Tell Us: Perceptions of Three Multilingual Students on Their Academic Writing in First Year (excerpt)

¿         Seven Stages of the Writing Process

Chapter 2: Understanding Research

Theme: Homeopathy and Control Trials

¿         What Is Research?

¿         10 Stages of the Research Process

¿         Inventing the Randomized Double-Blind Trial: The Nuremberg Salt Test of 1835 (excerpts)

Chapter 3: Bringing In Others¿ Ideas: Reading

Theme: Self-Driving Cars

¿         To Delegate or Not to Delegate: A Review of Control Frameworks for Autonomous Cars (Excerpt)

¿         Driverless Cars Work Great in Sunny California. But How About in a Blizzard?

Chapter 4: Bringing In Others¿ Ideas: Writing

Themes: Academic Integrity / Plagiarism in the Music Industry

¿         Student Perceptions of the Value of Turnitin Text-Matching Software as a Learning Tool (excerpt)

¿         Here¿s What Makes a Song a Ripoff, according to the Law:

How You Think about Music ¿ How Courts Think about Music (excerpt)

PART 2

Essay Sections: Paragraphs, Introductions, and Conclusion

Chapter 5: Presenting Coherent Arguments

Theme: Rehabilitation versus Punishment in Prisons

¿         `Prison is not for punishment in Sweden. We get people in better shape¿

¿         Model Argument

Chapter 6: Paragraphs

Themes: Fair Trade / Slow Food

¿         Fairness of Fair Trade Product Markets

¿         The Origin and Principle of Slow Food

¿         The Meaning of Fair Trade: Introduction

¿         Slow Food Revisited

¿         Mind the Fair Trade Gap

¿         Model Paragraphs

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Chapter 7: Introductions in Academic Writing

Theme: Business Leadership in Asia and Africa

¿         Recent Perspectives on Business and Leadership across Cultures:

The West, Asia, and Africa (model introduction)

¿         Introduction 1: Traditional Chinese Philosophies and Contemporary Leadership

¿         Introduction 2: Understanding the Varieties of Chinese Management: The ABCD Framework

¿         Introduction 3: Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia: Knowledge and Norms

¿         Introduction 4: On Becoming a Leader in Asia and America: Empirical Evidence from Women Managers

¿         Introduction 5: The Dynamics of Managing People in the Diverse Cultural and Institutional Context of Africa

Chapter 8: Conclusions in Academic Writing

Theme: Business Leadership in Asia and Africa

¿         Recent Perspectives on Business and Leadership across Cultures:

The West, Asia, and Africa (model conclusion)

¿         Conclusion 1:  Traditional Chinese Philosophies and Contemporary Leadership

¿         Conclusion 2: Understanding the Varieties of Chinese Management: The ABCD Framework

¿         Conclusion 3: Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia: Knowledge and Norms

¿         Conclusion 4: On Becoming a Leader in Asia and America: Empirical Evidence from Women Managers

Chapter 9: Review and Consolidation

PART 3

Writing for Different Academic Purposes

Chapter 10: Describing Processes and Statistical Data

Themes: 3D Printing / Air Pollution

¿         3D Printing

¿         Air Pollution Statistics (excerpt)

¿         Modern Life is KILLING Children: Gadgets, Pollution and Pesticides Are Blamed as Cancer Rate Soar 40 per cent in Just 16 Years

Chapter 11: Writings Arguments in Essays

Theme: Cellphones in Higher Education Classrooms

¿         You Can Lead a Horse to Water but you Cannot Make Him Learn¿ Smartphone Use in Higher Education (abstract)

¿         Mobile Phones in the Classroom: Examining the Effects of Texting, Twitter, and Message Content on Student Learning (abstract)

¿         A Happy and Engaged Class without Cell Phones? It¿s Easier Than You Think (abstract)

¿         Exploring the Extent to Which ELT Students Utilise Smartphones for Language Learning Purposes (abstract)

¿         How Concerned Should We Be about Cell Phones in Class?

Chapter 12: Making Comparisons

Theme: Nuclear Versus Solar and Wind Power

¿         Second Life or Half-Life? The Contested Future of Nuclear Power and Its Potential Role in a Sustainable Energy Transition (excerpt)

¿         Nuclear Energy in Focus (excerpt)

¿         Renewable Energy versus Nuclear: Dispelling the Myths (excerpt)

¿         Model comparative paragraphs

Chapter 13: Writings about Problems and Solutions

Theme: Language Loss

¿         What Is Language Endangerment? (excerpts)

¿         Back to the Future: Recreating Natural Indigenous Language Learning Environments through Language Nest Early Childhood Immersion Programs (excerpts)

¿         Getting in Touch: Language and Digital Inclusion in Australian Indigenous Communities (abstract)

¿         Kohanga Reo (excerpts)

Chapter 14: Writings about Causes and Effects

Themes: Climate Change and Children¿s Health / El Ni¿o

¿         Global Climate Change and Children¿s Health (excerpt)

¿         El Ni¿o

Chapter 15: Review and Consolidation

PART 4

Handbook: Writing Effective Sentences

UNIT 1 Tense and Aspect

UNIT 2 Articles, Nouns, and Noun Phrases

UNIT 3 Clauses and Sentences

UNIT 4 Relative Clauses

UNIT 5 Punctuation: Commas and Semicolons

UNIT 6 Participle Phrases

UNIT 7 The Passive Voice

UNIT 8 Punctuation: Colons and Apostrophes

UNIT 9 Sentence Fragments, Comma Splices, and Run-On Sentences

UNIT 10 Subject-Verb Agreement

UNIT 11 Conditional Sentences

UNIT 12 Parallel Structure

UNIT 13 Modal Auxiliary Verbs to Express Likelihood and Obligation

UNIT 14 Inversion for Emphasis

Appendices

APPENDIX 1 Linking Words in Academic Writing

APPENDIX 2 APA Citation Style

APPENDIX 3 MLA Citation Style

APPENDIX 4 35 Mistakes to Avoid in Academic Writing

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