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 ...
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 ...
In recent years the concept of 'register' has been increasingly replaced by emphasis on the analysis of genre, which relates work in sociolinguistics, text linguistics and discourse analysis to the study of specialist areas of language. Teachers, course designers and materials writers concerned with teaching language for specific purposes as well ...
In this book, genetics and ethnic background, family predisposition, sex, race and epidemiological factors in the assessment of cardiovascular risk are explained and related to cardiovascular problems. Detailed discussions of many extrinsic risk factors, including smoking, alcohol and drugs (including hormone replacement therapy and the ...
A discussion of all aspects of the pathogenesis and treatment of hypertension. Large-scale trials in hypertension are presented. A section on non-pharmacological therapy is included.
This book provides a rich and accessible account of genre studies by a world-renowned applied linguist. The hardback edition discusses today's research world, its various configurations of genres, and the role of English within the genres. Theoretical and methodological issues are explored, with a special emphasis on various metaphors of genre. ...
This manual is designed to contain all the information needed by the clinician who has to manage hypertensive patients. The ubiquity of the condition and its importance as a determinant of health and life expectancy, inevitably mean that most doctors will find themselves frequently in that situation. They will encounter a formidable literature: ...
The authors of "Academic Writing for Graduate Students" have written a book for the next level of second language writing. "English in Today's Research World" offers students a very high level of writing instruction, with a specific focus on the projects students undertake--such as dissertations and conference abstracts--at the end of their ...
The author describes this volume as a "textography" because it combines certain elements of text analysis and certain elements of ethnography. Through analysis of texts, textual forms and systems of texts, is shows the lives, life commitments and life projects of people deeply embedded in the literate culture of the university. The people examined ...
This is a handy booklet for researchers/scholars writing literature reviews. "Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review" is concerned with the writing of a literature review and is not designed to address any of the preliminary processes leading up to the actual writing of the literature review. This volume represents a revision and ...
This is a handy booklet for researchers/scholars writing abstracts. Today's research world demands a variety of different abstracts to serve different purposes. As a result, writing abstracts can be a difficult task for graduate and international students, researchers, and even practiced authors. "Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts" is ...
Attending graduate school presents a wide variety of challenges to both American and international students at U.S. universities. "Learning the Literacy Practices of Graduate School" explores many of those challenges in depth, addressing the textual features and conventions that characterize and underlie the advanced literacy practices at graduate ...
How does speaking affect writing in a second language? Research suggests that connecting speaking and writing in the second language classroom can support and enhance students' development of these skills. This volume presents the most current insights from research and theory on the numerous ways in which second language speaking and writing can ...
"Incidents in an Educational Life" is the educational memoir of John M. Swales, one of the world's leading scholars in the subfield of Applied Linguistics known as English for Specific Purposes. Swales has worked all over the world, taking teaching positions in Italy, Sweden, Libya, Sudan, the United Kingdom, and eventually at the University of ...
It's 2016, and the country is once again in the grip of Big Brother fever - but this time the show's producers are dead set to boost ratings by fair means or foul... Six celebrities fight to save their careers. Amongst them are a hot-tempered boxer, a ditzy socialite, a lusty crooner and a former MP, and the sparks soon begin to fly. But when a ...
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Current Medical Literature
Date Published: 1992
Description: Good. Current Medical Literature (1992. ) Slim 'booklet' with lightest edge wear, bright and neat color plates and text. Arriving FIRST class. read more
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