Bøger af Nigel A. Caplan

Combines genre research, proven pedagogical practices, and short readings to help students develop their rhetorical flexibility by exploring and practicing the key actions that will appear in academic assignments, such as explaining, summarizing, synthesizing, and arguing.

Describes the language of advanced academic writing with more than 300 real examples from successful graduate students and from published texts. Activities encourage students to investigate the language choices that are typical of their own academic disciplines or professional fields through structured reading and writing activities.