Demystifying academic writing : genres, moves, skills and strategies / Zhihui Fang

Includes index.

Section I Unpacking Academic Writing -- Chapter 1 What is Academic Writing? -- Chapter 2 Linguistic Features of Academic Writing -- Chapter 3 Skills and Strategies for Academic Writing: Part One -- Chapter 4 Skills and Strategies for Academic Writing: Part Two -- Section II Writing Academic Genres -- Chapter 5 Writing a Reading Response -- Chapter 6 Writing a Book Review -- Chapter 7 Writing a Literature Review -- Chapter 8 Writing an Argumentative Essay -- Chapter 9 Writing an Empirical Research Article -- Chapter 10 Writing a Grant Proposal -- Section III Maximizing Success in Writing and Publishing -- Chapter 11 Building Capacity for Academic Writing -- Chapter 12 Writing for Scholarly Publication -- Appendix A Survey of Academic Writing Needs -- Appendix B Checklist for Self Assessment of Academic Writing.

Accessible and informative, this book is designed to enhance the capacity of graduate and undergraduate students, as well as early career scholars, to write for academic purposes. Fang describes the key genres and types of academic writing, explains common rhetorical moves, offers linguistic strategies and insights to give students the skills they need for effective academic writing across genres and disciplines. Fang's functional linguistic approach to academic writing enables readers to do so much more than write well-formed grammatical sentences; it leverages writing as a meaning-making process to position language choices as the central focus.