Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers - Nigel A. Caplan

Abstract

"Grammar Choices is cross-referenced with Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd edition (Swales & Feak, 2012)."--Page 4 of cover. 1. Approach to Academic Written Grammar -- Unit 1 Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness: Report -- 1.1. Clause Structure -- 1.2. Noun Phrase Structure -- 1.3. Word Form -- 1.4. Verbs and Complements -- 1.5. Action Verbs -- 1.6. Reporting Verbs -- 1.7. Linking Verbs -- 1.8. Three Levels of Meaning -- 2. Clause Combination -- Unit 2 Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness: Definition -- 2.1. Types of Clauses -- 2.2. Equal and Unequal Clauses -- 2.3. Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses -- 2.4. -ing Clauses -- 2.5. Logic and Clause Combination -- 2.6. Summary of Punctuation -- 2.7. Fragments and Run-Ons -- 3. Embedded, Noun, and Complement Clauses -- Unit 3 Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness: The Introduction -- 3.1. Embedded Clauses (Restrictive Relative Clauses) -- 3.2. Reduced Embedded Clauses -- 3.3. Noun Clauses -- 3.4. Complement Noun Clauses -- 3.5. To Non-Finite Clauses and Subjunctive Clauses -- 3.6. Common Problems -- 4. Verb Forms -- Unit 4 Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness: Literature Review -- 4.1. Summary of Verb Tenses -- 4.2. Present and Past Simple Tenses -- 4.3. Present Perfect Tense -- 4.4. Writing about the Future -- 4.5. Other Tenses and Verb Forms -- 4.6. Passive Voice -- 4.7. Common Problems with Verb Tenses -- 4.8. Subject-Verb Agreement -- 4.9. Subject-Verb Inversion -- 5. Noun Phrase -- Unit 5 Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness: Title and Abstract -- 5.1. Count and Non-Count Nouns -- 5.2. Articles -- 5.3. Generic Reference -- 5.4. Indefinite Reference -- 5.5. Definite Reference -- 5.6. Quantifiers -- 5.7. Adjectives -- 5.8. Nominalization -- 6. Hedging, Boosting, and Positioning -- Unit 6 Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness: Data Commentary -- 6.1. Modal Verbs -- 6.2. Would -- 6.3. Adverbs -- 6.4. Conditionals -- 6.5. Comparatives, Superlatives, and Equatives -- 6.6. Evaluative Language -- 7. Collocation and Corpus Searching -- Unit 7 Preview Test -- Grammar Awareness: Essay -- 7.1. Writing Using a Corpus -- 7.2. Prepositions -- 7.3. Verb-Noun Collocations -- 7.4. Noun-Adjective and Noun-Noun Collocations -- 7.5. Skeletal Sentences -- 8. Beyond the Sentence -- Grammar Awareness: Textbook -- 8.1. Information Flow -- 8.2. Theme -- 8.3. Controlling the Theme -- 8.4. Paragraph Patterns.