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.
Advance in Academic Writing has been designed specifically to help students make a successful transition to college and university studies in w
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[show more]hich they are required to write assignments in academic English. Advance integrates active and critical reading, critical thinking, academic vocabulary building, academic writing style, and effective sentence structure and grammar around authentic academic texts. As students respond to these texts, they are taken through the research and writing processes they will need to master to succeed in their respective fields of study.
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[show less]Part 1 WRITING AND RESEARCH: GETTING STARTED
Chapter 1 Seven Stages of the Writing Process
Chapter 2 Understanding Research
Chapter 3 Bringing in Others' Ideas: Reading
Chapter 4 Bringing in Others' Ideas: Writing
Part 2 ESSAY SECTIONS: PARAGRAPHS, INTRODUCTIONS, AND CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 5 Presenting Coherent Arguments
Chapter 6 Paragraphs
Chapter 7 Introductions in Academic Writing
Chapter 8 Conclusions in Academic Writing
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[show more]pter 9 Review and Consolidation
Part 3 WRITING FOR DIFFERENT ACADEMIC PURPOSES
Chapter 10 Describing Processes and Statistical Data
Chapter 11 Writing Arguments in Essays
Chapter 12 Making Comparisons
Chapter 13 Writing about Problems and Solutions
Chapter 14 Writing about Causes and Effects
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
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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