{"product_id":"demystifying-academic-writing-9780367653545","title":"Demystifying Academic Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInformative, insightful, and accessible, this book is designed to enhance the capacity of graduate and undergraduate students, as well as early career scholars, to write for academic purposes. Fang describes key genres of academic writing, common rhetorical moves associated with each genre, essential skills needed to write the genres, and linguistic resources and strategies that are functional and effective for performing these moves and skills.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFang's functional linguistic approach to academic writing enables readers to do so much more than write grammatically well-formed  sentences. It leverages writing as a process of designing meaning to position language choices as the central focus, illuminating how language is a creative resource for presenting information, developing argument, embedding perspectives, engaging audience, and structuring text across genres and disciplines. Covering reading responses, book reviews, literature reviews, argumentative essays, empiri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection I Unpacking Academic Writing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 What is Academic Writing? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Linguistic Features of Academic Writing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Skills and Strategies for Academic Writing: Part One \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Skills and Strategies for Academic Writing: Part Two \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection II Writing Academic Genres \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Writing a Reading Response \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Writing a Book Review \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Writing a Literature Review \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Writing an Argumentative Essay \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Writing an Empirical Research Article \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10 Writing a Grant Proposal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection III Maximizing Success in Writing and Publishing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11 Building Capacity for Academic Writing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Writing for Scholarly Publication \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A Survey of Academic Writing Needs \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix B Checklist for Self Assessment of Academic Writing \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018005217623,"sku":"9780367653545","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367653545.jpg?v=1750775338","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/demystifying-academic-writing-9780367653545","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}