Study materials
The test covers the following chapters and topics from the
Writer's Guide for Engineers
(the pdf book below). The page numbers are provided
within the parenthesis in the table of contents below. Similar contents
with additional interactive exercises are available at Academic Writing
in English website (
http://sana.aalto.fi/awe).
CHAPTER 1 INFORMATION ORDERING (cohesion)
1.1 The given-new principle (pp. 11-13)
1.2 Organizing flow (pp. 14-18)
1.3 The light-before-heavy principle (pp. 19-21)
1.4 Repairing problems (pp. 22-28)
CHAPTER 2 ORGANIZING THE PARAGRAPH
2.1 Patterns of Organization (pp.29-39)
2.2 Topic sentences (pp. 39-42)
CHAPTER 3 STYLE
3.1 Vocabulary choice (pp. 43-48)
3.2 Sentence Structure (pp. 48-58)
CHAPTER 4 PUNCTUATION
4.1 The Comma (pp. 63-73)
Note. Although the name of the book implies that the primary audience is
engineers, the book focuses on common readability principles used in
academic writing across all disciplines, including arts, design and
architecture. Naturally, the core vocabulary is different in every
field, but the writing principles are similar.