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Academic Inquiry
Essays and Research
Marcia Kim and Jennifer MacDonald
The series is designed for the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing courses that prepare students from non-English speaking backgrounds for mainstream college and university level studies. The series acts as a bridge into the heavy writing demands of post-secondary education.
- Part of: Academic Inquiry
- Language Level: Advanced
Key features
- Authentic content from Canadian textbooks helps students prepare for future academic studies.
- Realistic writing models and methodical practice empower students to become accomplished writers in multiple rhetorical patterns.
- Sentence skills, grammar skills, and composition skills help students understand and apply key writing skills.
- Step-by-step writing tasks take students reliably through the entire writing process.
- Preventing plagiarism strategies in each unit help students master the art of citing, paraphrasing, referencing, and summarizing.
- Systematic vocabulary instruction in each unit covers the AWL and extends into mid-frequency words, helping students acquire a rich and comprehensive vocabulary base.
- Critical Thinking Skills and Learning Strategies increase students' engagement, comprehension and success.
- Language Tips in each unit help students master essential words, phrases and expressions related to the rhetorical patterns being studied.
- Flexible units allow teachers and students to focus solely on the academic writing goals or also delve into the academic readings and vocabulary instruction.
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Grounded in the core academic disciplines found on Canadian college and university campuses, the series takes an inquiry- and content-based approach to developing academic writing skills. The inquiry-based approach puts the needs of students front and centre in each unit, with their questions driving the acquisition of both language and content knowledge. By using academic content as a vehicle to contextualize learning, writing skills are embedded in a rich framework that provides an opportunity for the recycling and spiralling of core concepts. To promote content-rich writing outcomes, authentic academic readings are used throughout the series as a springboard for the promotion of effective academic writing. These readings are accompanied by learning strategies, anti-plagiarism tips, critical thinking development, grammar points, and specific writing skills that are distributed according to the demands of the unit content and writing assignments. Skills and learning strategies embedded in the disciplinary context of a unit build on one another to contribute to the creation of the writing assignment.
A complete teacher's resource will be available online.
A complete teacher's resource will be available online.
Table of Contents
- Unit 1 Education: Learning an Additional Language
EXPLORING IDEAS: Standard Paragraph and Essay Structure
ACADEMIC READING: Using the Frequency Principle and the Academic Word List
PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS: Writing Basic Thesis Statements
WRITING FUNDAMENTALS: Maintaining Paragraph Unity
UNIT OUTCOME: Standard Essay
- Unit 2 Ecology: Canadian Ecosystems
EXPLORING IDEAS: Cause and Effect
ACADEMIC READING: Understanding Word Forms
PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS: Writing Cause-and-Effect Thesis Statements
WRITING FUNDAMENTALS: Achieving Coherence
UNIT OUTCOME: Cause-and-Effect Essay
- Unit 3 Health Sciences: Health and Wellness in Canada
EXPLORING IDEAS: Summary and Response
ACADEMIC READING: Recognizing Prefixes and Suffixes
PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS: Writing Summary-and-Response Thesis Statements
WRITING FUNDAMENTALS: Developing Supporting Ideas
UNIT OUTCOME: Summary-and-Response Essay
- Unit 4 Science and Engineering: Technological Processes
EXPLORING IDEAS: Process
ACADEMIC READING: Recognizing Collocations
PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS: Writing Process Thesis Statements
WRITING FUNDAMENTALS: Quoting and Paraphrasing
UNIT OUTCOME: Process Essay
- Unit 5 Geography: Canadian Regional Geography
EXPLORING IDEAS: Compare and Contrast
ACADEMIC READING: Ensuring Variation
PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS: Writing Compare-and-Contrast Thesis Statements
WRITING FUNDAMENTALS: Organizing Supporting Ideas
UNIT OUTCOME: Compare-and-Contrast Essay
- Unit 6 Business: Marketing in Canada
EXPLORING IDEAS: Persuasion
ACADEMIC READING: Writing with Precision
PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS: Writing Persuasive Thesis Statements
WRITING FUNDAMENTALS: Blending Rhetorical Patterns
UNIT OUTCOME: Persuasive Essay
Author Info
Scott Roy Douglas is the Series Editor for Academic Inquiry. He has been actively involved in the field of English language teaching for over 20 years. He has taught at the University of Calgary, Kansai Gaidai University, and the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus, among others. He earned his MEd and PhD in TESL from the University of Calgary.
