READING ENGLISH DISCOURSE Business, Economics, Law, and Political Science

• Main Author: Bachman, Lyle F. 1944- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Prentice-Hall 1986
• Subjects: College readers > Problems, exercises, etc; Social sciences > Problems, exercises, etc; Readers > Social sciences; Readers > Business; Readers > Textbooks for foreign speakers > Law; English language > Textbooks for foreign speakers
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• Physical Description: xv, 279 pages illustrations 24 cm
• ISBN: 0137558449

In this absorbing book, the author focuses on the organization of discourse and the development of subtechnical vocabulary and vocabulary skills. The information In this book is meant to nelp students from all language backgrounds who need English as a tool for reading professional materials in their chosen disciplines. Stu- dents will be guided in reading formal academic English and in recognizing how grammatical structures indicate a range of discourse meanings. They will compre- hend new vocabulary and how it takes on different shades of meaning in the con- text of a certain passage.