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Most of the content of this unit is from the course book available online from the university library. In order to make the search easier, here is the link to the full text:
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Bailey, S. (2015). Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students. New York: Routledge.
Unit 1. Preliminaries of Academic Writing. Critical reading, ideas, notes and drafts, elaborating on the conventions of various genres –including essays, research papers, conference papers, articles, book reviews, etc.
PART 1 THE WRITING PROCESS
Background to Writing
Reading: Finding Suitable Sources
Reading: Developing Critical Approaches
Avoiding Plagiarism
Finding Key Points and Note-making
PART 4 WRITING MODELS
Literature Reviews and Book Reviews
Writing Longer Essays
Writing an abstract
Preparing a presentation
To learn more
UNIT 2: Techniques for the elaboration of an academic paper: quotations, bibliographical references and indexes based on the MLA Style Manual
References and Quotations
Self-Assessment Exercises
Complementary Exercises
Unit 3. Strategies and discursive, rhetoric and lexico-grammatical devices for the production of academic papers
PART 2 ELEMENTS OF WRITING
Argument and discussion
Cause and effect
Comparisons
Definite articles
Definitions
Examples
Generalisations
Passives
Problems and solutions
Punctuation
Singular or plural?
Style
PART 3 VOCABULARY FOR WRITING
Approaches to Vocabulary
Abbreviations
Conjunctions
Numbers
Prefixes and Suffixes
Prepositions
Synonyms
Time Markers
Unit 4. Organization and hierarchy of information, structure and development of outlines, first versions, drafts and proof-reading
Summarising and paraphrasing
Combining sources
Organising paragraphs
Introductions and conclusions
Rewriting and Proofreading
Unit 5. Writing and edition: how to achieve cohesion and coherence in a text, and how to use the appropriate academic register
Cohesion
Academic Vocabulary: Nouns and Adjectives
Academic Vocabulary: Adverbs and Verbs