Academic Vocabulary in Use with Answers

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The perfect study aid for anyone using English for their academic work. Academic Vocabulary in Use is the perfect study aid for anyone using English for their academic work. Ideal for students of any discipline, from engineers or social scientists to business students or lawyers, it covers all the key vocabulary they will come across in academic textbooks, articles, lectures and seminars, allowing them to function confidently in an English-speaking academic environment. The book is designed for students at good intermediate level and above as well as those preparing for IELTS and other university entrance examinations.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. 5)
• To the student and the teacher (p. 6)
• Working with academic vocabulary
• 1 What is special about academic English?
• 2 Key nouns
• 3 Key verbs
• 4 Key adjectives
• 5 Key adverbs
• 6 Phrasal verbs in academic English
• 7 Key quantifying expressions
• 8 Words with several meanings
• 9 Metaphors and idioms
• Word combinations
• 10 Nouns and the words they combine with
• 11 Adjective and noun combinations
• 12 Verbs and the words they combine with
• 13 Prepositional phrases
• 14 Verbs and prepositions
• 15 Nouns and prepositions
• 16 Fixed expressions
• At academic institutions
• 17 Applications and application forms
• 18 College and university: the UK system
• 19 Systems compared: the US and the UK
• 20 Academic courses
• 21 Study habits and skills
• 22 Online learning
• Ways of talking about ...
• 23 Sources
• 24 Facts, evidence and data
• 25 Numbers
• 26 Statistics
• 27 Graphs and diagrams
• 28 Money and education
• 29 Time
• 30 Cause and effect
• Opinions and ideas
• 31 Talking about ideas
• 32 Reporting what others say
• 33 Analysis of results
• 34 Talking about meaning
• 35 Research and study aims
• 36 Talking about points of view
• 37 Degrees of certainty
• Functions
• 38 Presenting an argument
• 39 Organising your writing
• 40 Making a presentation
• 41 Describing research methods
• 42 Classifying
• 43 Making connections
• 44 Comparing and contrasting
• 45 Describing problems
• 46 Describing situations
• 47 Processes and procedures
• 48 Describing change
• 49 Evaluation and emphasis
• 50 Summary and conclusion
• Reading and vocabulary
• 1 Good friends (p. 110)
• 2 Australia (p. 111)
• 3 The World Wide Web (p. 112)
• 4 The human brain (p. 113)
• 5 Nanotechnology (p. 114)
• 6 International law: an overview (p. 115)
• Reference
• 1 Formal and informal academic words and expressions (p. 116)
• 2 Numbers, units of measurement and common symbols (p. 120)
• 3 British and North American academic vocabulary (p. 122)
• 4 Spelling variations (p. 126)
• 5 Word formation (p. 128)
• 6 Abbreviations (p. 132)
• Key (p. 136)
• List of phonemic symbols (p. 166)
• Index (p. 167)