Academic writing in a second or foreign language : issues and challenges facing ESL/EFL academic writers in higher education contexts
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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London :
Continuum International ,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The issues and challenges facing academic writers from ESL / EFL contexts: An overview
- 2. Identifying and addressing challenges to international publication success for EFL science researchers : Implementing an integrated training package in China
- 3. Text and corpus work, EAP writing, and language learners
- 4. The impact of experience and beliefs on Chinese EFL student writers' feedback preference
- 5. Thesis and dissertation writing : moving beyond the text
- 6. The challenges of writing a successful thesis conclusion
- 7. EFL / ESL writers and the use of shell nouns
- 8. Writing in tables and lists : a study of Chinese students' undergraduate assignments in UK universities
- 9. Writing and researching between and beyond the labels
- 10. Identity without the "I" : A study of citation sequences and writer identity in literature review sections of dissertations
- 11. Two sides of the same coin : challenges and opportunities for scholars from ESL / EFL backgrounds