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| Introduction to the Thrid Edition | |
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| An Approach to Academic Writing | |
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| Audience | |
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| Purpose and Strategy | |
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| Organization | |
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| Style | |
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| Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift-Verbs | |
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| Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift-Nouns and Other Parts of Speech | |
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| Language Focus: Other Stylistic Features | |
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| Flow | |
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| Language Focus: Linking Words and Phrases | |
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| Presentation | |
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| Positioning | |
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| General-Specific and Specific-General Texts | |
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| Opening with General Statements | |
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| Opening with Statistics | |
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| Opening with Definitions | |
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| Writing a Definition | |
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| Some Common Ways to Define in Academic Writing | |
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| Language Focus: Verbs in Defining and Naming | |
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| A Brief Look at the Elements of Formal Sentence Definitions | |
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| Extended Definitions | |
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| Variations in Definations | |
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| Discussions of Schools of Thought | |
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| Specific-to-General Organization | |
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| Problem, Process, and Solution | |
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| The Structure of Problem-Solution Texts | |
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| Language Focus: Mid-Position Adverbs | |
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| Procedures and Processes | |
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| Language Focus: -ing Clauses to Indicate Cause and Effect | |
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| Language Focus: Passive Voice | |
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| Flow of Ideas in a Process Description | |
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| Language Focus: Indirect Questions | |
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| Introducing the Solution | |
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| Data Commentary | |
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| Strength of Claim | |
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| Structure of Data Commentary | |
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| Location Elements and Summaries | |
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| Language Focus: Verbs in Indicative and Informative Location Statements | |
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| Language Focus: Linking as Clauses | |
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| Highlighting Statements | |
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| Language Focus: An Introduction to Qualifications and Strength of Claim | |
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| Language Focus: Specific Ways of Moderating or Qualifying a Claim | |
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| Organization | |
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| Language Focus: Comparisons | |
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| Concluding a Commentary | |
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| Language Focus: Dealing with Unexpected Outcomes or "Problems" | |
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| Dealing with Graphs | |
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| Dealing with Chronological Data | |
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| Language Focus: Prepositions of Time | |
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| Writing Summaries | |
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| Considerations before Writing a Summary | |
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| Some Notes on Plagiarism | |
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| Paraphrasing | |
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| Careful Use of Synonyms | |
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| Language Focus: Identifying the Source | |
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| Language Focus: Summary Reminder Phrases | |
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| Syntheses of More than One Source | |
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| Language Focus: Showing Similarities and Differences | |
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| Writing Critiques | |
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| Book Reviews | |
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| Language Focus: Stating Opinions | |
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| Language Focus: Evaluative Language | |
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| Evaluating a Published Article | |
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| Language Focus: Unreal Conditionals | |
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| Language Focus: Evaluative Language Revisited | |
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| Critical Reading | |
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| Language Focus: Beginning the Critique | |
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| Language Focus: Inversions | |
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| Reaction Papers | |
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| Language Focus: Non-Standard Quotation Marks (Scare Quotes) | |
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| A Few Thoughts on Manuscript Reviews for a Journal | |
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| Constructing a Research Paper I | |
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| Types of Journal Publication | |
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| Short Communications (SCs) in Disciplines that Report Fieldwork | |
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| Longer Research Papers | |
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| Methods Sections | |
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| Language Focus: Linking Phrases in Methods Sections | |
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| Results Sections | |
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| Language Focus: Another Look at Location Statements | |
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| Language Focus: Special Verb Agreements | |
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| Language Focus: Making Comparisons | |
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| Constructing a Research Paper II | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Creating a Research Space | |
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| Language Focus: Citation and Tense | |
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| Language Focus: Negative Openings in Move 2 | |
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| Language Focus: Purpose Statements and Tense | |
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| Discussion Sections | |
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| Language Focus: Levels of Generalization | |
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| Language Focus: Expressions of Limitation | |
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| Unfinished Business | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| The Grammar of Definitions | |
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| Articles in Academic Writing | |
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| Academic English and Latin Phrases | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |