Ebook: A Brief Guide to Academic Writing

Hungarian Edition. — Műszaki Könyvkiadó, 2000. — 84 pages. — ISBN 963 16 3078 1.Language: English throughout the book.The book was written in order to facilitate the learning of writing in English. This work, with explanations, sample essays and tasks helps the learner’s work.ContentsBasic writing skills
Formal and informal language
Formal business letters
Informal letters
CV writing
Essay-writing
About essays in general
The writing process
The structure of a paragraph
The structure of an essay
Unity, coherence and cohesion
The descriptive essay
The narrative essay
The argumentative essay
The discursive essay
The comparison and contrast essay
Typical marking criteria
Term papers and theses
Structure and form of term papers
Using published sources
The APA
The MLA style of documentation
Note taking
Review of literature
Papers on literature
Papers on history
Papers on linguistics
Papers on applied linguistics
Papers on language pedagogy
Thesis writing
Appendix: Punctuation