Writing American Style.pdf

Introduction

Preparing an academic paper can be difficult, especially if English is your second language. For one thing, rules for

content, formatting, documenting, and communicating ideas differ throughout the world. However, several

universities have recently conducted studies of ESL/EFL writers. They report that by the time these students are

writing English on a day-to-day basis, they have attained:


Greater richness of expression

Tolerance for divergent views

Varied life experiences to call upon

Ability to accept criticism

Openness to new ideas

Over the years, as an ESL/EFL teacher, I began to envision a handbook that would help students from various

countries adjust to new guidelines for writing papers for North American schools, and in September 1996, Barron's

Educational Series, Inc. published my book, Writing a Research Paper American Style: An ESL/EFL Handbook.

Now, as a result of continued student and teacher interest, I have developed Writing American Style: An ESL/EFL

Handbook, which has been expanded to include guidelines for writing paragraphs, essays, and research papers. If

you are a student in a North American school who speaks two or more languages, and who finds it difficult to sort

out the various rules and recommendations for writing academic papers in American English, this book is for you.

Chapter One introduces you to an overview of writing American English style. It guides you through formal versus

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