Part I. Academic Text and Teaching Second Language Writing Chapter 1. The Importance of Text in Academic Writing: Ongoing Goals in Teaching L2 Skills Chapter 2. Student Writing in Colleges and Universities Chapter 3. Designing a Course of Study Part II. Sentences and Their Parts: Vocabulary and Grammar Chapter 4. Sentences, Phrases, and Text Construction Chapter 5. Nouns and the Noun Phrase Chapter 6.

More on the Noun Phrase: Pronouns Chapter 7. Verb Tenses and Active-Passive Constructions in Text Cohesion Chapter 8. Lexical Classes of Verbs: Meanings and Text Functions Chapter 9. Adjectives and Adverbs in Academic Discourse Part III. Text and Discourse Organization: The Sentence and Beyond Chapter 10. Backgrounding Discourse and Information: Subordinate Clauses Chapter 11. Rhetorical Features of Text: Cohesion and Coherence Chapter 12. Hedging in Academic Text in English Appendix A.

Formulaic Expressions, Sentence Stems, and Phrases for Speaking, Presenting, and Participating in Meetings Appendix B. Constructions, Phrases, Formulaic Sequences, and Sentence Stems for Academic Writing.