Expand Your English – A Guide to Improving Your Academic Vocabulary

Expand Your English – A Guide to Improving Your Academic Vocabulary

Writing academic prose in English is especially difficult for non-native speakers, largely because the standard vocabulary used in this genre can be quite different from colloquial English. Expand Your English: A Guide to Improving Your Academic Vocabulary is a unique and invaluable guide that will enable the reader to overcome this hurdle. It will become the favourite go-to reference book for both beginners and for intermediate learners struggling with the complexities of English-language academic writing.

Steve Hart covers 1,000 vocabulary items that are essential for good academic writing. The first section describes 200 key terms in detail, grouping them into logical sets of 10. Through careful repetition, the reader will find it easy to retain, retrieve, and reuse these essential phrases. The second section explains a further 800 terms, grouping them according to function, meaning, and the areas of an essay where they are likely to be used. The expansive scope of Expand Your English gives non-native speakers all the vocabulary tools they need to master this difficult style of writing.

Steve Hart is an academic English tutor and dissertation supervisor at a higher education institution in Cambridge, England. He has been editing and proofreading for international academics and graduate students since 2005. He has co-authored undergraduate English textbooks and written two practical grammar guides for university students.

Language: GB

Level: A1 Beginner to B2 Upper Intermediate

ESF | 428.24

Steve Hart – Hong Kong University Press