Dissertation Writing in Practice: Turning Ideas into Text - Softcover

Cooley, Linda; Lewkowicz, Jo

 
9789622096479: Dissertation Writing in Practice: Turning Ideas into Text
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9622096476 ISBN 13: 9789622096479
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This book is designed to raise students' awareness of the linguistic features of a postgraduate dissertation/thesis written in English. It deals primarily with the linguistic aspects of extended pieces of writing, placing great emphasis on the writer's responsibility for the readability of the text.

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About the Author

Linda Cooley is the ordinator of the postgraduate English programmes run by the English Centre for the Graduate School at the University of Hong Kong. She specializes in teaching writing at postgraduate level and has designed discipline-specific dissertation writing courses for students in real estate and construction, education, dentistry and business. Jo Lewkowicz is an associate professor in the English Centre at the University of Hong Kong, where she teaches on the MA in Applied Linguistics and on the Graduate School's dissertation writing course. Her research interests include language testing, programme evaluation and postgraduate literacy and she has published extensively in all three areas.

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Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9622096476
ISBN 13 
9789622096479
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
212