Academic English Writing: the Knowledge Base

This textbook is compiled for students to learn how to write academic papers or simply finish all the school assignments in order to obtain an academic degree: bachelor, master or PhD. If the context is in a non-English speaking region, the textbook is helpful for English learning, especially reading and writing, as well as speaking and listening since the textbook provides an approach to get access to the English world by presenting the linguistic features and contents in educational, professional and academic contexts. By mastering the knowledge constructed in this textbook, students may be equipped with the basic linguistic knowledge, skills and thinking methodologies to decode the English texts they may encounter in their future study or work, or code and write down their ideas or thoughts of complexity in both their first or second language. Basically, this book is compiled with students of English as a second language on the tertiary level in mind.

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Lianhong Gao got her PhD degree in TESOL Curriculum and Instruction at Florida International University. Currently, she is Associate Professor at Foreign Language School, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China.