English for professional and academic purposes / / edited by Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido, Juan C. Palmer-Silveira, Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez.
English in academic and professional settings has received great attention over the last 50 years, as its use has become a key asset for anyone interested in improving his/her chances of communicating internationally. However, it still offers rich opportunities for teachers and researchers working o...
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| Superior document: | Utrecht studies in language and communication, 22 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi. ©2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (237 pages) :; illustrations. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Current trends in English for Professional and Academic Purposes / Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido , Juan C. Palmer-Silveira and Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez
- Formality in academic writing: The use/non-use of phrasal verbs in two varieties of English / Dushyanthi Mendis
- The ‘dialectics of change’ as a facet of globalisation: Epistemic modality in academic writing / Carmen Pérez-Llantada
- Hidden influencers and the scholarly enterprise: A cross-cultural/linguistic study of acknowledgments in medical research articles / Françoise Salager-Meyer , María Ángeles Alcaraz Ariza and Maryelis Pabón Berbesí
- Researching into English for research publication purposes from an applied intercultural perspective / Ana I. Moreno
- Research reports in academic and industrial research / Philip Shaw
- Information use and treatment adherence among patients with diabetes / Ulla M. Connor , Elizabeth M. Goering , Marianne S. Matthias and Robert Mac Neill
- “Check it out” – The construction of patient empowerment in health promotion leaflets / Inger Askehave and Karen K. Zethsen
- Who “we” are: The construction of American corporate identity in the Corporate Values Statement genre / Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
- Evaluating and designing materials for the ESP classroom / Ana Bocanegra-Valle
- From text to task: Putting research on abstracts to work / John M. Swales and Christine B. Feak
- Approaching the essay genre: A study in comparative pedagogy / Ruth Breeze
- Academic writing in the disciplines: Practices in nursing, midwifery and social work / Julio Gimenez
- English language education for science and engineering students / Thomas Orr
- Notes on contributors.