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Writing Academic English, Fourth Edition (The Longman Academic Writing Series, Level 4)

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Using this textbook for the first time this year, I found it to be both well organized and contain interesting content, which helped pique the students' interest. After spending much time researching potential texts, this one was by and far the best. I only wish it had come with a teacher's edition providing creative suggestions for proceeding through the book (I'm a new teacher). Still, it has allowed me to organize the class into pairs and groups, when I wish, quite well for the practice exercises in order to create a more relaxed and student centered atmosphere. I also recommend alternating between chapters focusing on paragraph/essay and those on sentence structure. Overall I highly recommend it for upper-intermediate/advanced high school or university students. Very well done!

It's the book I strongly recommand for ESL student. It helps a lot in writing essay.

Look at the 1, 2, & 3 star reviews. . .those people are commenting primarily on the shipping, or they're unenthusiastic students who have left one-line reviews.

I'm an English instructor. I've taught In 3 different countries, and I currently teach developmental English and English 100-level courses to native speakers and speakers of pidgin, BVE, and various vernaculars. This book is a godsend. I ran across it while in Korea, and I have used it for every class since.

The comma rule simplification in the appendix alone is worth the price of this book. The author breaks all comma rules into 4 basic categories that students can actually understand. Having used books that try to get students to remember 10 + rules for a measly comma, I wish I could kiss the author on the face for making this understandable. It's short enough that students aren't exactly to the REM stage of sleep by the time I'm finished explaining it, but long enough to include all the rules. Some students even actually get it! Hallelujah!

The book also separates organizational tactics (block organization, point-by-point, different types of theses) from grammatical tactics (identifying clauses; frags, ROs, CSs, parallelism; adverbial clauses, etc.), so that you can match chapters to the grammar point - i.e. teach adverbial time clauses with chronological order), or avoid them altogether if you want. The preface offers some suggestions about these types of strategies.

I wish my department would teach with this book, but I don't have tenure so I might as well be begging a wall. If you're contemplating this book or another, get this one.

I really like, the shipment was fast, get in my house on the day before i was expect. Some exercise made in pen but i was able to erase, very satisfy

Best ESL book I'm aware of. Basically teaches foreign speakers of English to write academic essays.

It chaps my hide that my school doesn't use it anymore. I often shunt their books aside, photocopy pages from this one, and use them. Explanations are clear and exercises are right on-target. I have never misplaced my copy of this.

The only negative I can think of is that this is a book for classrooms, not independent learners. In other words, there are no answers to any of the exercises in the back.

great book for studying writing skill in English for international student.

i feel interested and looking forward to learning a lot with this book!

This is a very good book. I really like it and I hope to share this book to my friends. Have a nice day.

I've been using this book for only a couple weeks, but it appears to be exactly (or as near as possible) what I was looking for. I have two grad students whose English is already quite good (CEF C1) but still struggle with their writing. This book goes through the basic dos and don'ts of writing, regardless of academic topics. Having said that, it's not the most user-friendly for the classroom, but then again, writing hardly ever is.
I would recomend this book for self-study as well as tutored study only for students really motivated to improve their writing skills, as it is NOT and ESL book, it's a book on writing.
The drawback is the absence of an answer key, which I only realised when I got it and started using it. Now I have to get the teacher's guide; I've been teaching ESL for 18 yrs, and there are some tricky things in the book which most teachers (not to say all) would benefit from having a proper answer key and coments.
Overall, a good buy!

The book is awsome for anybody willing to learn how to write an academic English.Everything is explained simply and clearly.Not only non-native English speakers will benefit from this book, but native too can.I highly recommend it for everyone, whether young or adult, male or female, black or white.Dont miss it!
Anas, PhD student.

This is an excellent resource for any ESL teacher. This whole series is very good. All the books contain interesting activities, and all the material is very clearly explained. And the writing models are perfect.