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Contents: Preface. Part I: Academic Text and Teaching Second Language Writing. The Importance of Text in Written Academic Discourse: Ongoing Goals in Teaching ESL Skills. Student Writing Tasks and Written Academic Genres. Curriculum for Teaching the Language Features of Academic Writing. Part II: Sentences and Their Parts: Lexis and Grammar. Sentences, Phrases, and Text Construction. Nouns and the Noun Phrase. More on the Noun Phrase: Pronouns. Teaching Verb Tenses and Voice in Text Cohesion. Lexical Classes of Verbs: Meanings and Text Functions. Adjectives and Adverbs in Academic Discourse. Part III: Text and Discourse Flow: The Sentence and Beyond. Backgrounding Discourse and Information: Subordinate Clauses. Rhetorical Features of Text: Cohesion and Coherence. Hedging in Academic Text in English.