Writing Academic English 4th Edition

What'sNewin
theFourth
Edition

Preface

WritingAcademicEnglish,FourthEdition,is a comprehensiverhetoricandsentence

structuretextbook/workbookforhigh-intermediatetoadvancedEnglishlanguage

learnerswhoareincollegeorare collegebound.Thebookteaches writingina

straightforwardmanner,usinga step-by-stepapproach.Clear,relevantmodelsillus-

trateeachstep,andvariedpracticesreinforceeachlesson.

Thefirstpartofthebookprovidesa quickreviewofparagraphwritingandsum-

marizing,followedbya chapterthatintroducestheessay.Thesecondpartofthe

bookofferscomprehensivechaptersonprocess,cause/effect,comparison/contrast,

andargumentativeessays.Sentencestructure,withspecialemphasis onsubordi-

natedstructures,is taughtinthethirdpartofthebook.

Throughoutthebook,modelsandpracticesfeaturegeneralacade1].ictopicsthat

aretimelyandrelevanttostudentslivingina rapidlychangingworld.Inaddition,

readingsfromcun-ent,real-worldpublicationsconcludethechapterson different

essayforms.Mostchaptersoffera varietyofwritingassignments,andeachchapter

endswitha reviewofthemainteachingpoints.

Appendicesexplainthewritingprocess;givepunctuationrules;showchartsof

connectingwords,transitionsignals,andeditingsymbols;andteachstudentsbasic

researchanddocumentationskills.Self-editingandpeer-editingworksheetsand

modelscoringrubricsarealsoprovided.Referencestotheappendicesappearwithin

thechapterswherestudentsarelikelytobenefitmostfromusingthismaterial.

Instructorsfamiliarwiththethirdeditionwillfindthesechanges:

• PartI, Writinga Paragraph,hasbeencondensedfromseventothreechaptersin
  ordertomovestudentsmorequicklytowritingessays.


• PartII,WritinganEssay,hasbeenexpandedfroJ:Iltwotofivechapters.Each
  patternofessayorganizationnowhasitsownchapter.
  A newchapteronargumentativeessayshasbeenadded.Thischapteralsoserves
  asanintroductiontousingsupportingmaterialsfromoutsidesources.


• Eachessaychapterconcludeswithoneortwoshortreadings,selectedbecause
  oftheirhighinterestandbecausetheyemploythepatternoforganizationtaught
  inthechapter.Followingthereadingsareexercisesaskingstudentstoanalyze
  rhetoricaldevicesandpatternsand/ortosummarizethecontent.Writingassign-
  mentsbasedonthereadingsarealsoprovided.
  InstructioninbasicresearchanddocumentationskillshasbeenaddedinAppen-
  dixE.ExamplesofMLA-stylein-textcitationsappearthroughoutthetext.


• Thesectionsonsummarizingandparaphrasinghavebeenexpandedtoinclude
  intermediate-stepexercisestohelpstudentsmasterthesedifficultskills.
  Bothself-editingandpeer-editingworksheetsareprovidedin AppendixF,along
  withscoringrublicsforusebyinstructors.
  Finally,modelshavebeenupdated,practicematerialsfreshened,and expla-
  nationsstreamlined,always withtheintentionofmaking thematerialmore
  accessibletostudents.

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