Exploring Options in Academic Writing - Effective Vocabulary and Grammar Use (Paperback)

Exploring Options is designed to help student writers develop their knowledge and use of academic language to meet the demands of college- and university-level writing assignments. It draws on the research identifying lexical and grammatical patterns across academic contexts and provides authentic reading contexts for structured vocabulary learning. Recognizing that vocabulary choices in writing often require consideration of grammatical structure, Exploring Options focuses on specific kinds of lexico-grammatical decisions-that is, the ones involving the interaction between vocabulary and grammar-that students face in shaping, connecting, and restructuring their ideas. The book helps writers learn how to effectively use resources such as learner dictionaries, thesauruses, and concordancers to improve academic word knowledge. Following a unit on using resources for vocabulary development, the contents are divided into three parts: Showing Relationships within Sentences, Connecting and Focusing across Sentences, and Qualifying Statements and Reporting Research. Part 1 focuses on verbs and modifiers that express increases and decreases, verbs and abstract nouns that describe change, connectors and verbs describing causal relationships, and parallel structures. Part 2 explores the words that help connect ideas and add cohesion. Part 3 discusses how to express degrees of certainty and accuracy and the use of reporting verbs.

General

Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2016
Authors:	Jan Frodesen • Margi Wald
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-472-03426-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Usage guides Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Creative writing & creative writing guides Promotions
LSN:	0-472-03426-X
Barcode:	9780472034260

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