English
for Academic Purposes | 2018
2 March
Articles and clips
S. Fish, The Writing Lesson ( New York Times Opinion)
Grammar and vocabulary
G.N. Trenite, The Chaos (a poem on
pronunciation, phonetic transcription, abridged version with photentic transcription)
Cohesion exercise (ThoughtCo.)
Beast from the East
9 March
Grammar and vocabulary
Conditional forms (Education First resources for learning English).
Talking about the past, Perfective aspect (British Council Learn English)
past perfect (Murphy, English Grammar in Use)
16 March
Articles and clips
English spelling/pronunciation poems ( English Spelling Society)
Grammar and vocabulary
Continuous aspect (British Council Learn English)
although/though/even though, despite/in spite of (Murphy, English Grammar in Use)
Frequentatives (Real English blog)
egregious
23 March
Articles and clips
Examples of biographical statements
Some bibliographic sketches of Paul Nash, BBC article on Nash
Genre analysis of biostatements (Tardy and Swales, Genre Analysis, in: Schenider and Barron (eds.), Pragmatics of Discourse, 2014)
World Poetry Day, Poetry & Performance ( British Library)
6 April
Articles and clips
What's Wrong With College English? (Francis-Noel Thomas and Mark Turner, 1996)
Grammar and vocabulary
Punctuation: Commas
Punctuation for connecting words (Douglas College), Transition words: punctuation ( English essay writing tips)
Oxford Univ. Style Guide (p.11-18 for punctuation)
13 April
Grammar and vocabulary
Academic writing: punctuation (UEAFP), Comma exercise
Punctuation (Oxford Dictionaries), punctuation (Education First), punctuation (Univ. Reading Library)
20 April
Grammar and vocabulary
Order of English adjectives (Cambridge Dict.)
Order force: the old grammar rule we all obey without realising (Guardian Comment)
Adjective order exercise ( Frankfurt Intl School)
27 April
Articles and clips
Summary of the opening section of M. Turner and F.-N. Thomas, Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, 1994 ( Pablo Stafforini), D. Dutton, Writing Classic Prose, 1997 (review of this book)
Classic Style is not Practical Style (extract from Writing Classic Prose)
Online Guide with Exercises and
Additional Museum Exhibits For
Clear and Simple as the Truth:
Writing Classic Prose
Grammar and vocabulary
Punctuation exercises (Purdue OWL).
A phrasebank for email writing
Dr Who or Professor Who? On Academic Email Etiquette ( ThermalToy)
The 100 most useful emailng phrases (Alex Case, UsingEnglish.com)
4 May
Mary Norris, The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen (TED talk)
H. Sword, Hooks and Sinkers, Chapter 7 from Stylish Academic Writing. (A cautionary note on CARS.)
hook, line, and sinker
as and like (British Council), such as and like (QuickandDirtyTips.com),
nitpicking, belie
11 May
who or whom? (Oxford Dict.)
18 May
Examples of biographical statements
Czech-English dictionary of university terminology (PF UK)
How to translate your degree from Czech to English (UTB, Zlin)
What You Need to Know Before You Write a Bio Statement ( NC State Univ.)
K. Hyland and P. Tse, 'She has received many honours': Identity construction in article
bio statements
K. Hyland, Narrative, Identity and Academic Storytelling
25 May
Roth's complicated relationship to academe
(Inside Higher Ed)