Writing academic prose in English is especially difficult for nonnative speakers largely because the standard vocabulary used in this genre can be quite different from colloquial English. Expand Your English A Guide to Improving Your Academic Vocabulary is a unique and invaluable guide that will enable the reader to overcome this hurdle. It will become the favourite goto reference book for both beginners and for intermediate learners struggling with the complexities of Englishlanguage academic writing. Steve Hart covers 1000 vocabulary items that are essential for good academic writing. The first section describes 200 key terms in detail grouping them into logical sets of 10. Through careful repetition the reader will find it easy to retain retrieve and reuse these essential phrases. The second section explains a further 800 terms grouping them according to function meaning and the areas of an essay where they are likely to be used. The expansive scope of Expand Your English gives nonnative speakers all the vocabulary tools they need to master this difficult style of writing.show more