Sharpening Academic Skills

Sharpening Academic Skills is a writing course book for university preparatory students learning English as a foreign language. It provides students with sentence construction, paragraph writing, essay writing and vocabulary enhancement exercises. The book includes:

- Reading passages to introduce the target structures and vocabulary of the chapters and to provide ideas for writing

- Exercises on language structures and vocabulary needed for writing

- Model paragraphs and essays

- Writing practice from guided to open-ended

- Editing checklists for revising written work

- Exercises on easily confused words

- Additional writing assignments