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Originally published in 1998, Other Floors, Other Voices uses texts to capture the lives of three communities operating within a single building on the University of Michigan campus. Swales' thoughtful exploration of the three units centres around the individuals who work on each floor and the discourse-related activities they engage in.

The author describes this volume as a "textography" because it combines elements of text analysis and elements of ethnography. Through analysis of texts, textual forms, and systems of texts, it shows the lives, commitments and projects of people embedded in the literate culture of the university.

The author describes this volume as a "textography" because it combines elements of text analysis and elements of ethnography. Through analysis of texts, textual forms, and systems of texts, it shows the lives, commitments and projects of people embedded in the literate culture of the university.

The author looks at varieties of language and considers these in relation to communication and task-based language learning.

Focuses on the supporting genres that facilitate the more public genres that form the building blocks of an academic and/or research career. Included are statements of purpose for graduate school applications, letters of recommendation, and responses to journal reviewers.

A reissue of Ashton ESP research reports no. 1 (1981)." Originally published: Birmingham, England: Language Studies Unit, University of Aston in Birmingham, 1981.

This book bundle includes the four volumes in the revised and expanded editions of English in Today's Research World. The bundle is ideal for libraries and teacher resource centers. The book bundle packages together these 4 volumes: Volume 1, Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts, Volume 2, Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review, Volume 3, Creating Contexts: Writing Introductions across Genres, and Volume 4, Navigating Academia...

Coverage includes understanding the intended audience, and academic genres, the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising, how to write summaries and critiques, and helping students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.

The Commentary for the third edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students has been revised and expanded to offer more guidance for teachers. The many changes include newer, longer, and more authentic texts and examples, greater discipline variety in texts, more in-depth treatment of research articles, greater emphasis on vocabulary issues, a revised flow-of-ideas section, additional tasks that require students to do their own research, an...

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An educational memoir of John M Swales, a scholar in the subfield of Applied Linguistics known as English for Specific Purposes. It traces his gradual transformation from student to English as a Second Language teacher, to one of the leading international figures in his field.

It's 2016, and the country is once again in the grip of Big Brother fever - but this time the show's producers are dead set to boost ratings by fair means or foul... Six celebrities fight to save their careers. Amongst them are a hot-tempered boxer, a ditzy socialite, a lusty crooner and a former MP, and the sparks soon begin to fly. But when a killer targets the group, they find themselves in a struggle for their lives. Watching from outsi...