Preface
Start Learning
Why do we choose postgraduate studies?
Postgraduate programs and research degrees
Types of postgraduate programs
Reference skills: the card catalogue
Check yourself Units 1-4
Listening skills
Making a speech
Strategies to testing: standardized tests
Vocabulary tests: synonyms and antonyms; base words; root words; prefixes, suffixes; clipped words (shortening); blended words; words from sounds; borrowed words
Check yourself Units 5-8
Vocabulary tests: homophones, homographs, analogies, completion sentence tests: word meaning items
Reading comprehension tests
Tests of standard written English
Precis
Check yourself Units 9-12
Abstract
Writing a research report: main ideas
Writing supporting details in a research report: description
Writing supporting details in a research report: expository writing
Check yourself Units 13-16
Writing supporting details in a research report: using strategies to persuade
Abstract of thesis
Strategies to prewriting the research paper: introduction to the research paper, discovering subjects, choosing and limiting a subject, gathering information, analyzing, evaluating sources
Strategies to prewriting the research paper: developing the working thesis statement, taking notes, summarizing, organizing your notes, outlining
Strategies to writing the research paper: drafting, revising, editing, publishing
Check yourself Units 17-21
Keys
Glossary