Includes a glossary and appendices.

"English for Academic Study: Extended Writing & Research Skills takes students step by step through the process of producing an extended piece of academic writing, helping them to develop the writing and research skills necessary for the task. Students make use of the source materials that accompany the course to produce their own piece of extended writing. They are then encouraged to use the strategies they have learned to produce a second piece of writing, within their own field of study.

The approach allows students to work independently, supported by detailed information and advice, as well we model answers provided in both the Course Book and the Instructor’s Manual.

The units are organized as follows:
Introduction to the Skills of Extended Writing and Research
Using Evidence to Support Your Ideas
Structuring Your Project and Finding Information
Developing Your Project
Developing a Focus
Introductions, Conclusions, and Definitions
Incorporating Data and Illustrations
Preparing for Conference Presentations and Editing Your Work

Each unit has weblinks offering additional information and activities. A dedicated website, www.englishforacademicstudy.com, offers further instructor resources." (Book Cover)

BOOK MAP:

Unit 1: Introduction to the Skills of Extended Writing and Research

Tasks:
Critical thinking in academic study
What do students in higher education write?
. Types of writing
Getting help with writing
Analyzing the task
The stages of writing a paper

Starting Project 1: ideas for the introduction, main body, and conclusion

Unit Summary

Unit 2: Using Evidence to Support Your Ideas

Tasks:
Selective reading: reading for research purposes Incorporating evidence into academic work Referencing: direct quotations, summaries, and paraphrases

Purposeful reading: searching text for definitions
Features of a summary
Stages in writing a summary or paraphrase
Practice summary 1
Practice summary 2
Practice summary 3
Unit summary

Unit 3: Structuring your Project and Finding Information

Tasks:
The structure of papers
Descriptive and evaluative writing
Reading for a specific purpose
Choosing sources
Finding information

Analyzing websites: critical evaluation

Acknowledging your sources
Academic conventions in referencing
When to avoid using online sources
Writing a bibliography
Unit Summary

Unit 4: Developing Your Project

Tasks:
Discussing feedback on draft text
Quotations, paraphrases, and plagiarism
Avoiding plagiarism
Working with abstracts
Unit Summary

Unit 5: Developing a Focus

Tasks:
Choosing a topic for your extended essay
Developing a topic
Establishing a focus
Establishing a working title
Planning Project 2
Unit Summary

Unit 6: Introductions, Conclusions, and Definitions

Tasks:
Features of introductions
Analyzing your introduction
The language of introductions
Identifying the thesis statement
Features of conclusions
Analyzing your conclusion
The language of conclusions
Features of definitions
Unit Summary

Unit 7: Incorporating Data and Illustrations

Tasks:
The purpose of data
The language used for incorporating data
Data commentary
The language of data commentary
Practice data commentary
Unit Summary

Unit 8: Preparing for Conference Presentations and Editing Your Work

Tasks:
Features of abstracts
Conference abstracts
Preparing an oral presentation
Preparing a poster presentation
Unit Summary

g. Glossary

a. Appendices:

Appendix 1: Sample Paper

Appendix 2: Self-Evaluation Checklist

Appendix 3: Taking Notes

Appendix 4: Source Texts

Appendix 5: Compiling a Bibliography

Suitable for: Upper intermediate to proficiency, TOEFL 525-600, IELTS 5.5-7.0".