Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition: Essential Tasks and Skills

By J. Swales, Christine B. Feak. 2012

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Exploring students’ perspectives on Generative AI-assisted academic writing (2024, unknown): “Academic writing provides students with a mechanism by which they can exercise their critical thinking skills, demonstrate their knowledge, and advocate for their unique stance on a topic to persuade readers to accept their findings or conclusions (Swales & Feak, 2012).”
The Routledge handbook of English language teaching (2018, background): “Languages such as English or Spanish, as well as any other symbolic system (such as mathematics and music), are symbolic cultural artefacts; they are both content and tools for thinking processes in human beings.”
Quantifying the Burden of Writing Research Articles in a Second Language (2011, background): “The persuasive sections of a research article, that is, the Introduction and Discussion, textually are especially troublesome (Martín-Martín, 2008; St. John, 1987; Swales & Feak, 2004).”