LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 10 : 12 December 2010
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         K. Karunakaran, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.

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A Review of A Course in Academic Writing by Professor Renu Gupta

R. G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.

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A Very Useful Book

A Course in Academic Writing by Professor Renu Gupta (Orient Blackswan, New Delhi 110 002, 2010) is a boon to both students and teachers who are engaged in doing research. Our content and research methodology are part of our specific disciplines we specialize in. However, presenting our research with clarity to the reading public and academics is, indeed, a distinct skill that needs to be cultivated as a general skill.

Courses in academic writing or research writing are based on universal principles of presentation of research findings using appropriate language and idiom. Even the best researchers find it difficult to communicate their research in a manner that is easy to understand even as the reports retain their original methodology, intent and conclusions.

Professor Renu Gupta's articles are always well written for professional journals and her contribution to the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages has been superb and relevant to teachers, researchers and students in South Asia and in the developing world. In this book also, we get the benefit of her insights and experience.

Contents of This Manual

The book consists of 10 chapters with an introduction. The chapters of this book are as follows:

1. The Big Picture
2. Approaches to Writing
3. The Process of Writing
4. Writing Paragraphs
5. Types of Organization
6. Text Genres
7. Reports
8. Research Paper
9. Presenting Your Ideas
10. Editing for Style or Beyond Grammar
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Colloquial versus Standard in Singaporean Language Policies | Listening, an Art? | Bilingual Persons with Mild Dementia - Spectrum of Cognitive Linguistic Functions | How does Washback Work on the EFL Syllabus and Curriculum? - A Case Study at the HSC Level in Bangladesh | Impact of Participative Management on Employee Job Satisfaction and Performance in Pakistan | Homeless in One's Own Home - An Analysis of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Lakshmi Kannan's Going Home | Formative Influences on Sir Salman Rushdie | Role of Science Education Projects for the Qualitative Improvement of Science Teachers at the Secondary Level in Pakistan | Perception of Phoneme Contrast in Children with Hearing Impairment in Telugu | Motivation: Extrinsic and Intrinsic | Speech and Language Characteristics of Monozygotic Twins - A Case Study | Language Shift among the Tribal Languages of India - A Case Study in Bihar | Interrogative Structures and Their Responses as Speech Initiators and Fluency Booster for Second Language Learners | English as a Second Language - Learning Strategies and Teachability | Identifying an Unknown Language Bahai in and around Kanpur Area | Character Analysis of Andrews in Graham Greene's The Man Within | Shangshak Tangkhul and Pushing Tangkhul Numerals - A Comparative Presentation | A Review of A Course in Academic Writing by Professor Renu Gupta | Web-Based Training in Gaining Proficiency in English Language |A PRINT VERSION OF ALL THE PAPERS OF DECEMBER, 2010 ISSUE IN BOOK FORMAT. | HOME PAGE | CONTACT EDITOR languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com

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