Steve Hart
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9789888390755
- eISBN:
- 9789888390465
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390755.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, English Language
Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical guide ...
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Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical guide specifically for the native Chinese speaker on how to write good academic English. English Exposed: Common Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers is divided into three main sections. The first section examines errors made with verbs, nouns, prepositions, and other grammatical classes of words. The second section focuses on problems of word choice. In addition to helping the reader find the right word, it provides instruction for selecting the right style too. The third section covers a variety of other areas essential for the academic writer, such as using punctuation, adding appropriate references, referring to tables and figures, and selecting among various English date and time phrases. Using English Exposed will allow a writer to produce material where content and ideas—not language mistakes—speak the loudest.Less
Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical guide specifically for the native Chinese speaker on how to write good academic English. English Exposed: Common Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers is divided into three main sections. The first section examines errors made with verbs, nouns, prepositions, and other grammatical classes of words. The second section focuses on problems of word choice. In addition to helping the reader find the right word, it provides instruction for selecting the right style too. The third section covers a variety of other areas essential for the academic writer, such as using punctuation, adding appropriate references, referring to tables and figures, and selecting among various English date and time phrases. Using English Exposed will allow a writer to produce material where content and ideas—not language mistakes—speak the loudest.
Nancy Glazener
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199390137
- eISBN:
- 9780199390151
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199390137.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Whereas standard histories of literary studies have focused on struggles between philologists and another camp known as generalists or belle-lettrists, this second camp might be better understood as ...
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Whereas standard histories of literary studies have focused on struggles between philologists and another camp known as generalists or belle-lettrists, this second camp might be better understood as aesthetic critics, the chief ancestors of twentieth-century literary studies. Moreover, this conflict is probably less important than the struggle that led to disciplinary separations between literary studies, on the one hand, and speech and drama, on the other. Since highly literary forms of oral performance were widespread at the turn of the century, it is important to analyze the pressures that led to literary studies becoming even more insistently text based (a further contrast with public literary culture, which combined analytic, interpretive, creative, and performative registers). This chapter argues that academic literary studies has been from the beginning disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and antidisciplinary. After examining the discipline’s early incarnation, whose constraints we have only in recent decades been overcoming, the chapter proposes that the interdisciplinary and antidisciplinary dimensions of English literary studies are valuable resources that may allow us to rethink literary studies and literary authority in an era when knowledge is once again being reorganized.Less
Whereas standard histories of literary studies have focused on struggles between philologists and another camp known as generalists or belle-lettrists, this second camp might be better understood as aesthetic critics, the chief ancestors of twentieth-century literary studies. Moreover, this conflict is probably less important than the struggle that led to disciplinary separations between literary studies, on the one hand, and speech and drama, on the other. Since highly literary forms of oral performance were widespread at the turn of the century, it is important to analyze the pressures that led to literary studies becoming even more insistently text based (a further contrast with public literary culture, which combined analytic, interpretive, creative, and performative registers). This chapter argues that academic literary studies has been from the beginning disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and antidisciplinary. After examining the discipline’s early incarnation, whose constraints we have only in recent decades been overcoming, the chapter proposes that the interdisciplinary and antidisciplinary dimensions of English literary studies are valuable resources that may allow us to rethink literary studies and literary authority in an era when knowledge is once again being reorganized.
