Suitable for exams from September 2017 until August 2018
Written for intermediate level sudents who are preparing to study, or are already studying, in an academic environment and need to improve their writing skills. The course takes students from paragraph structuring to essay writing through a process approach.
"Plagiarism has long been regarded with concern by the university community as a serious act of wrongdoing threatening core academic values. There has been a perceived increase in plagiarism over recent years, due in part to issues raised by the new media, a diverse student population and the rise in English as a lingua franca. This book approaches plagiarism from a linguistic perspective, cons…
Here, Ian Bruce proposes a new model of genre-based approaches to academic writing, and analyses the ways in which this can be implemented in pedagogy and curriculum design.