Unit 1 A Brief Overview 1
1.1 Writing Papers in English: How to Get over Procrastination 1
1.2 The Process of Writing 3
1.3 Features of Research Paper Sections 4
Exercise 1 4
1.4 Academic Style 5
Formality 6
Exercise 2 7
Conciseness 8
Exercise 3 9
1.5 General Rules for Tenses 9
Exercise 4 11
1.6 Academic Vocabulary 11
Academic Vocabulary of Different Formality Levels 12
Academic Vocabulary for Organizing Writing 13
Exercise 5 13
Unit 2 Methods 15
2.1 Read and Analyse 15
Task 1 15
Task 2 19
2.2 Elements and Organization 21
Exercise 1 22
2.3 Patterns 22
Exercise 2 23
2.4 Academic Writing Skills: Describing a Process 23
Time Connectors 23
Exercise 3 24
Common Procedure Verbs 25
Exercise 4 25
2.5 Language Focus: Sentence Writing 26
Types of Sentences 26
Four Common Problems in Sentence Structures 26
How to Correct Common Problems in Sentence Structures 27
Exercise 5 27
2.6 Tasks 28
Task 1 28
Task 2 29
Task 3 29
Unit 3 Results 31
3.1 Read and Analyse 31
Task 31
3.2 Elements and Organization 33
Exercise 1 34
3.3 Patterns 36
Exercise 2 36
3.4 Academic Writing Skills: Describing Tables and Figures 37
Choosing the Right Visuals 37
Labelling and Referring 37
Using Texts to Describe Tables and Figures 37
Vocabulary for Describing Trend in Tables and Figures 38
Exercise 3 38
3.5 Language Focus: Verbs in Summary Statement of Tables and Figures 40
Exercise 4 40
3.6 Tasks 41
Task 1 41
Task 2 41
Task 3 41
Unit 4 Introduction 43
4.1 Read and Analyse 43
Task 43
4.2 Elements and Organization 45
Exercise 1 46
4.3 Patterns 47
Exercise 2 48
Exercise 3 49
4.4 Academic Writing Skills: Using Sources 50
Reasons for Using Sources in Academic Writing 50
Four Ways of Using Sources 50
Exercise 4 52
Exercise 5 53
Citation Styles 55
Citation Types 56
4.5 Academic Writing Skills: Reviewing Literature 57
Exercise 6 57
4.6 Academic Writing Skills: Achieving Coherence 63
Exercise 7 65
Exercise 8 65
4.7 Language Focus: Summary Nouns 66
Exercise 9 67
4.8 Language Focus: Reporting Verbs 68
Common Reporting Verbs in Academic Writing 68
Functions, Strength and Evaluation of Reporting Verbs 69
Exercise 10 71
4.9 Tasks 71
Task 1 71
Task 2 72
Unit 5 Discussion (and Conclusion) 73
5.1 Read and Analyse 73
Task 73
5.2 Elements and Organization 76
5.3 Patterns 77
Exercise 1 77
5.4 Academic Writing Skills: Qualifying Your Generalization 78
Exercise 2 80
5.5 Language Focus: Levels of Generality 81
Exercise 3 81
5.6 Tasks 82
Task 1 82
Task 2 82
Unit 6 Title 83
6.1 Read and Analyse 83
Task 83
6.2 Guidelines for Good Titles 84
6.3 Patterns 85
Exercise 1 87
6.4 Academic Writing Skills: Using Nominalization 87
Nominalization 87
Functions of Nominalization 88
Exercise 2 89
Exercise 3 89
When to De-Nominalize? 90
Exercise 4 90
6.5 Language Focus: Noun Modifiers 90
Exercise 5 92
6.6 Tasks 93
Task 1 93
Task 2 93
Unit 7 Abstract 95
7.1 Read and Analyse 95
Task 95
7.2 Types of Abstracts: Elements and Organization 96
Exercise 1 98
7.3 Patterns 100
7.4 Language Focus:Collocation 101
Exercise 2 101
7.5 Tasks 102
Task 1 102
Task 2 103
Task 3 103
Unit 8 Proofreading and Revising 105
8.1 A Checklist for Proofreading 105
Exercise 1 106
Exercise 2 107
8.2 The Use of Articles 108
Exercise 3 108
8.3 Commonly Confused Vocabulary 109
Exercise 4 109
References 111
Sources of Sample Texts and Figures 113