The series is designed for the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing courses that prepare students from non-English speaking backgrounds for mainstream college and university level studies. The series acts as a bridge into the heavy writing demands of post-secondary education.
Grounded in the core academic disciplines found on Canadian college and university campuses, the series takes an inquiry- and content-based approach to developing academic writing skills. The inquiry-based approach puts the needs of students front and centre in each unit, with their questions
driving the acquisition of both language and content knowledge. By using academic content as a vehicle to contextualize learning, writing skills are embedded in a rich framework that provides an opportunity for the recycling and spiralling of core concepts. To promote content-rich writing outcomes,
authentic academic readings are used throughout the series as a springboard for the promotion of effective academic writing. These readings are accompanied by learning strategies, anti-plagiarism tips, critical thinking development, grammar points, and specific writing skills that are distributed
according to the demands of the unit content and writing assignments. Skills and learning strategies embedded in the disciplinary context of a unit build on one another to contribute to the creation of the writing assignment.
A complete teacher's resource will be available online.
Unit 1 Education: Learning an Additional Language
EXPLORING IDEAS: Standard Paragraph and Essay Structure
ACADEMIC READING: Using the Frequency Principle and the Academic Word List
PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS: Writing Basic Thesis Statements
WRITING FUNDAMENTALS: Maintaining
Paragraph Unity
UNIT OUTCOME: Standard Essay
Unit 2 Ecology: Canadian Ecosystems
EXPLORING IDEAS: Cause and Effect
ACADEMIC READING: Understanding Word Forms
PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS: Writing Cause-and-Effect Thesis Statements
WRITING FUNDAMENTALS: Achieving
Coherence
UNIT OUTCOME: Cause-and-Effect Essay
Unit 3 Health Sciences: Health and Wellness in Canada
EXPLORING IDEAS: Summary and Response
ACADEMIC READING: Recognizing Prefixes and Suffixes
PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS: Writing Summary-and-Response Thesis Statements
WRITING
FUNDAMENTALS: Developing Supporting Ideas
UNIT OUTCOME: Summary-and-Response Essay
Unit 4 Science and Engineering: Technological Processes
EXPLORING IDEAS: Process
ACADEMIC READING: Recognizing Collocations
PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS: Writing Process Thesis
Statements
WRITING FUNDAMENTALS: Quoting and Paraphrasing
UNIT OUTCOME: Process Essay
Unit 5 Geography: Canadian Regional Geography
EXPLORING IDEAS: Compare and Contrast
ACADEMIC READING: Ensuring Variation
PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS: Writing Compare-and-Contrast Thesis
Statements
WRITING FUNDAMENTALS: Organizing Supporting Ideas
UNIT OUTCOME: Compare-and-Contrast Essay
Unit 6 Business: Marketing in Canada
EXPLORING IDEAS: Persuasion
ACADEMIC READING: Writing with Precision
PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS: Writing Persuasive Thesis
Statements
WRITING FUNDAMENTALS: Blending Rhetorical Patterns
UNIT OUTCOME: Persuasive Essay
Scott Roy Douglas is the Series Editor for Academic Inquiry. He has been actively involved in the field of English language teaching for over 20 years. He has taught at the University of Calgary, Kansai Gaidai University, and the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus, among others.
He earned his MEd and PhD in TESL from the University of Calgary.
Academic Inquiry: Academic Inquiry 1, Sentences and Paragraphs - Marcia Kim and Jennifer MacDonald
Series Editor Scott Roy Douglas
Academic Inquiry: Academic Inquiry 2 - John Scott Jamieson and James Papple
Series Editor Scott Roy Douglas
Academic Inquiry 3, Essays and Integrating Sources - Sarah Leu and Heike Neumann
Series Editor Scott Roy Douglas
Academic Inquiry - Scott Douglas
