20.736, Books: Applied Ling/Lang Acquisition: Alonso Alonso

Sun Mar 8 22:59:12 UTC 2009

LINGUIST List: Vol-20-736. Sun Mar 08 2009. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 20.736, Books: Applied Ling/Lang Acquisition: Alonso Alonso

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Randall Eggert, U of Utah  
       <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, 
and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemeh at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue. 

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 06-Mar-2009
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Writing for Academic Purposes: Alonso Alonso

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:57:33
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Writing for Academic Purposes: Alonso Alonso

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=20-736.html&submissionid=207811&topicid=2&msgnumber=1

Title: Writing for Academic Purposes 
Subtitle: A Handbook for Learners of English as a Second Language 
Series Title: LINCOM Academic Reference Books 02  

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu

Author: María Rosa Alonso Alonso

Paperback: ISBN:  9783895864391 Pages: 110 Price: Europe EURO 44.50

Abstract:

Writing for Academic Purposes
A Handbook for Learners of English as a Second Language

María Rosa Alonso Alonso
Universidad de Vigo 

This book has been written to fill in a gap in the literature: an exercise
book for academic purposes. Students of English as a Second Language,
researchers and teachers often have problems to write in an academic
context. For five years, the author has been collecting data from the
written production of students, researchers and teachers who studied
English as a Second Language in academic contexts. The most frequent
errors, common to all of them, were analysed. The data collected have been
the source to create this book. It contains theoretical explanations and
practical exercises covering the following topics: spelling and
punctuation, pronoun agreement, verbal agreement, sequence of tenses,
dangling modifiers, infinitives and -ing form, hedging and frequently
misused words. All the activities are based on real examples produced by
students in different fields when writing in English for academic purposes. 

The material has been tested in the classroom to check it applicability.
The author offered the University of Vigo a training course in academic
writing in the scientific-technological field for students, researchers and
teachers. As the course was a success, five more courses were done. For two
years, the author tested the material, added issues that the students
demanded and included several appendices. 

Contents 

1 Punctuation 
1.1 Full stop 
1.2 Comma 
1.3 Semicolon 
1.4 Colon 
1.5 Dash 
1.6 Brackets 

2 Spelling 
2.1 Doubling of consonants 
2.2 Adding a suffix to a word 
2.3 Adding suffixes to words ending in -y 
2.4 Making plurals 

3 Pronoun agreement 
3.1 Pronoun number 
3.2 Pronoun gender 
3.3 Ambiguity 

4 Verbal agreement 
4.1 Singular Subjects 
4.2 Plural subject 
4.3 Singular or plural subject 

5 Dangling modifiers 
5.1 Placement 
5.2 Correcting dangling modifiers 

6 Sequence of tenses 
6.1 How are tenses divided in the different sections of a paper? 
6.2 What is the sequence of tenses? 
6.2.1 Perfect and progressive tenses 

7 Infinitive and -ing form 
7.1 Uses of the infinitive 
7.2 Uses of -ing form 
7.3 Verbs which can be used both with infinitive or -ing 
7.4 Verbs which can be used with infinitive or -ing but there is a change
in meaning 

8 Hedging 
8.1 How can this be done? 

9 Frequently misused words 

E Key to the activities 

E.1 Unit 1: Punctuation
E.2 Unit 2: Spelling 
E.3 Unit 3: Pronoun Agreement 
E.4 Unit 4: Verbal Agreement  
E.5 Unit 5: Dangling Modifiers 
E.6 Unit 6: Sequence of Tenses

ISBN 9783895864391. LINCOM Academic Reference Books 02. 110pp. 2009. 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Anthropological Linguistics
                     English as a Second Language

Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=39983

MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Brill          
		http://www.brill.nl	

	Cambridge Scholars Publishing          
		http://www.c-s-p.org	

	Cambridge University Press          
		http://us.cambridge.org	

	Cascadilla Press          
		http://www.cascadilla.com/	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Elsevier Ltd          
		http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics	

	Emerald Group Publishing Limited          
		http://www.emeraldinsight.com/	

	Equinox Publishing Ltd          
		http://www.equinoxpub.com/	

	European Language Resources Association - ELRA          
		http://www.elra.info.	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	Hodder Education          
		http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.eu	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Mouton de Gruyter          
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com	

	Multilingual Matters          
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/	

	Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG          
		http://www.narr.de/	

	Oxford University Press          
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Peter Lang AG          
		http://www.peterlang.com	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Springer          
		http://www.springer.com	

	Wiley-Blackwell          
		http://www.blackwellpublishing.com	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
		http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm 

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass
		http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://www.ipra.be 

	Linguistic Association of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 

	Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
		http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	Utrecht institute of Linguistics
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ 

-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-20-736	