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Presenting an analysis of French grammar using the Hallidayan approach, this title looks at what constitutes language, and how it is used in life.

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Provides students with essential lessons for advancing their Chinese language skills, and also introduces important aspects of contemporary Chinese society and culture. It incorporates suggestions from years of student and teacher feedback, and includes lessons as well as vocabulary glosses, grammar explanations, and exercises.

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A theory of control, equally grounded in syntax and semantics, that argues that obligatory control is achieved either through predication or through logophoric anchoring.

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This practical guide to the art of writing discusses the art and craft of writing non-fiction, including essays, memoirs, how-to guides, travel, technical reports, feature articles, and recipes, among other genres, and provides helpful tips on the business side of writing, such as how to target one's audience,

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Although much has been written about Abraham Lincoln, there has been little rhetorical analysis of how this public man communicated with his listeners.

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Shows the nature and importance of academic discourses in the modern world. This book describes the conventions of spoken and written academic discourse and the ways these construct both knowledge and disciplinary communities.

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Shows the nature and importance of academic discourses in the modern world, and offers a description of the conventions of spoken and written academic discourse and the ways these construct both knowledge and disciplinary communities. This title is suitable for students studying TESOL, applied linguistics, and English for Academic Purposes.

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Offers an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. This book uses the theoretical tradition of New Literacy Studies, and applies this to a case study of one university in the changing context of South Africa.

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Offers an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. This book probes some of the limitations by looking at the complex interactions taking place between students' diverse language and educational histories, their literacy practices, and institutional discourses.

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An investigation of academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English. >

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An investigation of academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English.

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Genre-based courses enable second language learners to integrate their linguistic, organisational and contextual knowledge in a variety of different tasks. This book reviews pedagogical approaches to genre through English for Specific Purposes and Systemic Functional Linguistics to present a synthesis of the research in the field.

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Proposes a fresh model of genre-based approaches to academic writing, and analyses the ways in which this can be implemented in pedagogy and curriculum design. This book focuses on the use of genre-based approaches to teaching academic writing. It is suitable for researchers in applied linguistics.

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Examines plagiarism, the inappropriate relationship between a text and its sources, from a linguistic perspective. This book uses empirical data drawn from a sample of student writing, compared against written sources to argue that some plagiarism can be regarded as a failure of pedagogy rather than a deliberate attempt to transgress.

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Examines what constitutes plagiarism in academic writing using empirical data and from a linguistic perspective. >

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Examines what constitutes plagiarism in academic writing using empirical data and from a linguistic perspective. >

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Exploring research and pedagogy on second language writing, this volume focuses on issues concerning policy decisions affecting foreign students.

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Exploring research and pedagogy on second language writing, this volume focuses on issues concerning policy decisions affecting foreign students.

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Focuses on the issues and challenges facing ESL/EFL students and scholars who choose to, or have to, write in English in higher education contexts.

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Contemporary research into written academic discourse has become increasingly polarised between two approaches: corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. This book illustrates how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can work as complementary approaches. It is suitable for researches and postgraduates in applied linguistics.