Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills

by Christine B. Feak, John M. Swales, Christine A. Beer Feak

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
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472088564
• ISBN13: 9780472088560
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great book for academic writing

This book is a wonderful companion for graduate students and will serve as a good reference material for any else who will write for the academia. It is quite comprehensive in dealing with several writing cases and will be useful throughout one's career. Is worth the price you pay. In short, if you plan to write, buy this book and read it.

Academic Writing for Graduate Students

I started reading this book and it has so much information that a graduate student would need to improve

Excellent primer for writing instructors - and international graduate students

How do international students develop the appropriate vocabulary, register, and practice for writing their research projects in English? What reading and writing strategies and techniques do ESL students need to master to successfully write summaries, create annotated bibliographies, and convey their ideas to their academic peers and professors? This commentary to the second edition of the acclaimed Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills answers these vital questions. A concise summary opens each unit before revealing the task answers. Mirroring the popular ESL book's structure, the reader can quickly determine the essential teaching point of each task. This commentary dramatically enhances the core text, giving both the novice and experienced writing instructor practical tips on complicated material. The authors acknowledge disagreements between disciplines, provide lively responses, and maintain a nuanced, fair tone. They also freely admit where they have responded to, or incorporated, criticisms of the first edition. Naturally, ambitious and curious graduate students can benefit from this thin instructor's guide as well. In short, this excellent primer illuminates the definitive guide to academic writing for international students.

academic writing for graduate studies

This book is a great tool for both experienced and novice writers in college matters. It introduces basic information about sentence structure, style, tone and other features you need to consider when writing a scholar papers. It also provides lots of practice to reinforce the concepts introduced and put them into practice.

excellent, especially for self-study

I have taught academic writing for almost 10 years and have myself put together a handbook. This is the single best book that I have found for self-study for non-native speakers. In fact, it is not only useful for graduate students, but for anyone who looks to improve their formal language skills, for professional purposes such as report-writing. It includes many useful exercises, covering details and nuances of the English language. The sample materials are interesting and engaging. It has sections on all the important aspects and comprehensively covers the subject, including formal grammar and style, data commentary, writing summaries & critiques and ends with two chapters that guide readers through constructing their own research paper. The authors share some of the writing that their students have done, which also supports the learning process, as you consider what works, and what doesn't. I haven't seen the 2004, second edition, so I cannot compare. If, as a non-native speaker you are looking for a great book to work with, this is what you need. The same is true if you teach non-native students to write academically. I recommend inquiring, if you buy secondhand, what state the book is in, because if the exercises have been filled out already, it will detract from the value.