Writing Academic English by Alice Oshima, Ann Hogue

By Alice Oshima, Ann Hogue

Now in its fourth version, Writing educational English , via Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue, is the fundamental writing textual content to organize high-intermediate and complicated university or college-bound English language freshmen for tutorial success.

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A step by step technique publications scholars throughout the technique of writing paragraphs and essays.
Clear versions and sundry perform support scholars to increase self belief and a mature writing style.
Examples with educational content material top scholars for faculty work.
Appendices provide effortless reference for key writing, grammar, and examine information.

New to the Fourth Edition
A bankruptcy devoted to every one trend of essay organization
A bankruptcy on argumentation and utilizing fabric from outdoors sources
Thought-provoking readings from genuine sources
An extended bankruptcy on precis and paraphrase
Instruction within the fundamentals of analysis and documentation

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Dr. Donald Catlin, director of a drug-testing lab eat UCLA, stated, "The sophisticated athlete who wants to take drugs has switched to things we can't test for" (qtd. in Bamberger and Yaeger 62). 4. If you break a quoted sentence into two parts, enclose both parts in quotation marks and separate the pal1S with commas. Capitalize only the first word of the sentence. "The sophisticated athlete who wants to take drugs," stated Dr. Donald Catlin, director of a drug-testing lab at UCLA, "has switched to things we can't test for" (qtd.

Blue is not a good color for dinnerware, however. Food looks less appetizing when it is served on blue plates, perhaps because very few foods in nature are of that color. Other studies have shown that the color green is calming. After London's Blackfriars Bridge was painted green, the number of suicides from it decreased by 34 percent. It is clear that color affects not just our moods, but our behavior as well (Daniels 10). B. Both of the following paragraphs break the rule of unity because they contain one or more sentences that are off the topic.

2 A dependent clause is always connected to an independent clause to make a sentence. The sentence mayor may not have a comma. The general rule is this: Put a comma after a dependent clause but not in front of one. I DEPENDENT CLAUSE I , - - INDEPENDENT CLAUSE-, Although the company's sales increased last year, its net profit declined. I INDEPENDENT CLAUSE I I DEPENDENT CLAUSE I The company's net profit declined last year although its sales increased. For information about subordinators, see Chapter 13.

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