Mike Hannay Books

Many academics and professionals are expected to write correct, attractive, and effective English. Effective Writing in English: a sourcebook is a reliable guide for the English writing process. It provides practical advice on how to write a persuasive English text, focusing on drafting, structuring the text, organizing paragraphs and sentences, and editing the final result. The goal of Effective Writing in English is to enhance a writer's control over their text and to demonstrate how to achieve communicative goals with an English text. One of the tools for this is a comprehensive list of language issues that Dutch-speaking writers encounter in English. The book can be used alongside other resources and features a dedicated website with regularly updated practice materials.

This book offers practical advice and guidance to German-speaking undergraduates and academics who aspire to write in English. It also provides valuable assistance to editors, examiners and teachers who conduct English courses for intermediate or advanced students. It consists of four modules and is rounded off with a subject index and a glossary. Making extensive use of authentic texts, the authors adopt a contrastive approach and focus on the major problems encountered by Germans writing in English. This second edition has been revised, updated and expanded to include, among other things, a new section on coordination and listing as well as new lexico-grammatical material that writers can put to immediate use and benefit.