Academic writing and grammar for students:
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London
Sage
2013
|
| Series: | Sage study skills series
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Physical Description: | XI, 201 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781446210901 9781446210918 |
Staff View
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000 c 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV041216575 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 20130827 | ||
| 007 | t | ||
| 008 | 130813s2013 |||| 00||| eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9781446210901 |c hbk |9 978-1-4462-1090-1 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781446210918 |c pbk |9 978-1-4462-1091-8 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)859376699 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV041216575 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rakwb | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 049 | |a DE-91 | ||
| 084 | |a KOM 955f |2 stub | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Osmond, Alex |e Verfasser |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Academic writing and grammar for students |c Alex Osmond |
| 264 | 1 | |a London |b Sage |c 2013 | |
| 300 | |a XI, 201 S. | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a Sage study skills series | |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Wissenschaftlicher Text |0 (DE-588)4199679-3 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Textproduktion |0 (DE-588)4184945-0 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Wissenschaftliches Manuskript |0 (DE-588)4066596-3 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 689 | 0 | 0 | |a Wissenschaftlicher Text |0 (DE-588)4199679-3 |D s |
| 689 | 0 | 1 | |a Textproduktion |0 (DE-588)4184945-0 |D s |
| 689 | 0 | |5 DE-604 | |
| 689 | 1 | 0 | |a Wissenschaftliches Manuskript |0 (DE-588)4066596-3 |D s |
| 689 | 1 | |5 DE-604 | |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |m SWB Datenaustausch |q application/pdf |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=026191196&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |3 Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| 999 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-026191196 | ||
Record in the Search Index
| _version_ | 1804150651439022080 |
|---|---|
| adam_text | CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR IX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS X
INTRODUCTION: THE AIMS OF THIS BOOK AND HOW TO USE IT 1
WRITING AT UNIVERSITY 1
WHAT S IN THIS BOOK? 3
BASIC CONVENTIONS OF ACADEMIC WRITING 4
BASIC GRAMMATICAL CONCEPTS 4
PUTTING SENTENCES TOGETHER 4
PUTTING PARAGRAPHS TOGETHER 4
CRITICAL THINKING AND REFERENCING 4
CONCISENESS AND CLARITY 5
COMMON MISTAKES AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM 5
PROOFREADING EFFECTIVELY 5
NOTES ON THE TEXT AND THE CONVENTIONS I FOLLOW 6
DIFFERENT SUBJECTS 6
REFERENCING 6
1 BASIC CONVENTIONS OF ACADEMIC WRITING 9
USING ACRONYMS 11
ESTABLISHING OBJECTIVITY 11
REFERENCING CORRECTLY 13
AVOIDING SLANG/COLLOQUIAL LANGUAGE 14
AVOIDING EMOTIVE LANGUAGE 19
AVOIDING THE FIRST PERSON 23
AVOIDING THE SECOND PERSON 24
AVOIDING CONTRACTIONS 26
SIMPLICITY, CLARITY AND CONCISENESS 27
FURTHER READING 31
ACADEMIC WRITING AND GRAMMAR FOR STUDENTS
2 BASIC GRAMMATICAL CONCEPTS 32
TYPES OF WORDS 33
NOUNS, PROPER NOUNS, CONCRETE NOUNS, ABSTRACT
NOUNS AND PLURALS 33
VERBS 38
PRONOUNS 43
ARTICLES 48
MODIFIERS (DESCRIBING WORDS AND PHRASES) 51
ADJECTIVES 55
ADVERBS 57
CONJUNCTIONS 58
PREPOSITIONS 59
SUMMING UP 61
FURTHER READING 61
3 PUTTING SENTENCES TOGETHER 62
SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT 63
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE 66
REMOVING THE SUBJECT OF THE SENTENCE 68
EMPHASISING THE OBJECT OF THE SENTENCE 69
VARYING YOUR SENTENCE STRUCTURE 70
TENSE 71
THE MOST COMMON TENSES IN ACADEMIC WRITING 72
AVOIDING CONTINUOUS TENSES WHERE POSSIBLE 74
HEDGING 76
PUNCTUATION 78
. THE FULL STOP 78
? THE QUESTION MARK 79
! THE EXCLAMATION MARK 81
, THE COMMA 81
: THE COLON 82
; THE SEMI-COLON 82
() BRACKETS/PARENTHESES 83
[ ] SQUARE BRACKETS 84
- THE HYPHEN/DASH 84
THE APOSTROPHE 84
FURTHER READING 88
4 PUTTING PARAGRAPHS TOGETHER 89
SIGNPOSTING LANGUAGE 91
TOPIC SENTENCES AND STAYING ON TOPIC 96
WHAT, WHY, WHEN 105
FURTHER READING 106
VI
CRITICAL THINKING AND REFERENCING
REFERENCING
THE DIFFERENT REFERENCING SYSTEMS/STYLES
HARVARD REFERENCING/THE AUTHOR*DATE SYSTEM
VANCOUVER OR NUMERIC REFERENCING
FOOTNOTES
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA) AND AMERICAN
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA) REFERENCING
OSCOLA
THE P WORD: PLAGIARISM
CRITICAL THINKING
MORE COMPLEX REFERENCING TECHNIQUES
ELLIPSIS
SQUARE BRACKETS
SUMMING UP
FURTHER READING
CONCISENESS AND CLARITY
WATCH THOSE WORD COUNTS
REDUNDANT PHRASES
OTHER REDUNDANT PHRASES
AVOIDING EXPLETIVE CONSTRUCTIONS
USING SIMPLE WORDS INSTEAD OF COMPLEX ONES
SIMPLE SENTENCES
DOES THIS BELONG HERE?
MEANINGLESS MODIFIERS: VERYV REALLY / EXTREMELY / SEVERELY
(AND SO ON)
THE FUTURE TENSE/UNNECESSARY SIGNPOSTING
AVOIDING REPETITION
THE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICES
CHANGING NEGATIVES TO AFFIRMATIVES
REMOVING EXCESSIVE NOMINALISATION
USING THE WORD THIS
MORE EXAMPLES
EXAMPLE ONE
EXAMPLE TWO
EXAMPLE THREE
EXAMPLE FOUR
EXAMPLE FIVE
FURTHER READING
COMMON MISTAKES AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM
MIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
CONTENTS
107
108
111
113
114
114
116
116
116
117
122
122
123
124
125
126
128
129
130
133
134
136
138
140
142
143
145
148
148
152
153
153
154
154
155
156
158
159
160
VII
ACADEMIC WRITING AND GRAMMAR FOR STUDENTS
DANGLING MODIFIERS 163
USING IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT... 167
USING I THINK/I FEEL... 169
AVOIDING THE WORD INTERESTING 172
POOR PRESENTATION OF TABLES AND GRAPHS 174
COMMA SPLICING 176
USING OF INSTEAD OF HAVE 181
THE WORD OF AND POSSESSIVE REPLACEMENTS 183
PUTTING THINGS OFF 185
8 PROOFREADING EFFECTIVELY 188
DISTANCE YOURSELF FROM YOUR WORK 189
PROOFREAD MORE THAN ONCE 190
LEAVE MORE TIME THAN YOU THINK YOU NEED 191
READ YOUR WORK ALOUD 191
READ FROM YOUR LAST SENTENCE BACK 191
USE TECHNOLOGY BUT DON T RELY ON IT 192
BE RUTHLESS 193
PROOFREAD FOR YOU... 195
.. .AND KEEP THINGS IN CONTEXT 197
DO YOUR OWN PROOFREADING 198
INDEX 199
VIII
|
| any_adam_object | 1 |
| author | Osmond, Alex |
| author_facet | Osmond, Alex |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Osmond, Alex |
| author_variant | a o ao |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV041216575 |
| classification_tum | KOM 955f |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)859376699 (DE-599)BVBBV041216575 |
| discipline | Kommunikationswesen Wiss. Arbeiten |
| format | Book |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>01509nam a2200397 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV041216575</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20130827 </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">130813s2013 |||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781446210901</subfield><subfield code="c">hbk</subfield><subfield code="9">978-1-4462-1090-1</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781446210918</subfield><subfield code="c">pbk</subfield><subfield code="9">978-1-4462-1091-8</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)859376699</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV041216575</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rakwb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-91</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">KOM 955f</subfield><subfield code="2">stub</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Osmond, Alex</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Academic writing and grammar for students</subfield><subfield code="c">Alex Osmond</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">London</subfield><subfield code="b">Sage</subfield><subfield code="c">2013</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">XI, 201 S.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Sage study skills series</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Wissenschaftlicher Text</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4199679-3</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Textproduktion</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4184945-0</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Wissenschaftliches Manuskript</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4066596-3</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Wissenschaftlicher Text</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4199679-3</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Textproduktion</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4184945-0</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Wissenschaftliches Manuskript</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4066596-3</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">SWB Datenaustausch</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=026191196&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltsverzeichnis</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="999" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-026191196</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| id | DE-604.BV041216575 |
| illustrated | Not Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2024-07-10T00:42:19Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 9781446210901 9781446210918 |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-026191196 |
| oclc_num | 859376699 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-91 DE-BY-TUM |
| owner_facet | DE-91 DE-BY-TUM |
| physical | XI, 201 S. |
| publishDate | 2013 |
| publishDateSearch | 2013 |
| publishDateSort | 2013 |
| publisher | Sage |
| record_format | marc |
| series2 | Sage study skills series |
| spelling | Osmond, Alex Verfasser aut Academic writing and grammar for students Alex Osmond London Sage 2013 XI, 201 S. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Sage study skills series Wissenschaftlicher Text (DE-588)4199679-3 gnd rswk-swf Textproduktion (DE-588)4184945-0 gnd rswk-swf Wissenschaftliches Manuskript (DE-588)4066596-3 gnd rswk-swf Wissenschaftlicher Text (DE-588)4199679-3 s Textproduktion (DE-588)4184945-0 s DE-604 Wissenschaftliches Manuskript (DE-588)4066596-3 s SWB Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=026191196&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Osmond, Alex Academic writing and grammar for students Wissenschaftlicher Text (DE-588)4199679-3 gnd Textproduktion (DE-588)4184945-0 gnd Wissenschaftliches Manuskript (DE-588)4066596-3 gnd |
| subject_GND | (DE-588)4199679-3 (DE-588)4184945-0 (DE-588)4066596-3 |
| title | Academic writing and grammar for students |
| title_auth | Academic writing and grammar for students |
| title_exact_search | Academic writing and grammar for students |
| title_full | Academic writing and grammar for students Alex Osmond |
| title_fullStr | Academic writing and grammar for students Alex Osmond |
| title_full_unstemmed | Academic writing and grammar for students Alex Osmond |
| title_short | Academic writing and grammar for students |
| title_sort | academic writing and grammar for students |
| topic | Wissenschaftlicher Text (DE-588)4199679-3 gnd Textproduktion (DE-588)4184945-0 gnd Wissenschaftliches Manuskript (DE-588)4066596-3 gnd |
| topic_facet | Wissenschaftlicher Text Textproduktion Wissenschaftliches Manuskript |
| url | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=026191196&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT osmondalex academicwritingandgrammarforstudents |