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vi / Acknowledgments
Koji Suzuki for "Global Implications of Patent Law Variation."
Lee Tesdell for "ESL Spelling Errors," TESOL Quarterly 18, no. 2, 1984.
TESOL for "Chinese EFL Student's Learning Strategies for Oral Communication," by Huang Xiao-Hua, TESOL Quarterly 19, no. 1, 1985; and for material adapted from "Rhetorical Patterns in English and Chinese," by Hiroe Kobayashi, TESOL Quarterly 18, no. 4, 1984.
Jun Yang for "Binding Assay and Down Regulation Study."
Contents
Introduction |
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Unit One: An Approach to Academic Writing |
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Audience |
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7 |
Purpose and Strategy |
8 |
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Organization |
10 |
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Style |
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15 |
Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift |
15 |
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Language Focus: Formal Grammar and Style |
18 |
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Flow |
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21 |
Language Focus: Linking Words and Phrases |
22 |
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Language Focus: this + Summary Word |
25 |
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Presentation |
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29 |
Positioning |
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31 |
Unit Two: Writing General-Specific Texts |
33 |
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Sentence Definitions |
36 |
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Language Focus: The Grammar of Definitions |
37 |
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Extended Definitions |
45 |
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Contrastive |
Definitions |
49 |
Comparative |
Definitions |
52 |
Generalizations |
54 |
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Unit Three: Problem, Process, and Solution |
57 |
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The Structure of Problem-Solution Texts |
57 |
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Language Focus: Midposition Adverbs |
60 |
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Problem Statements |
60 |
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Procedures and Processes |
61 |
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Language Focus: Verbs and Agents in the Solution |
63 |
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Language Focus: -ing Clauses of Result |
69 |
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Language Focus: Indirect Questions |
71 |
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