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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