(All books are available at www.amazon.com, through the publisher, or from your favorite bookstore.)
Coming soon (August 2012)
Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers (University of Michigan Press) by Nigel A. Caplan. For a sneak preview of this new grammar textbook for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and reseachers, please see my presentation at TESOL 2012. Grammar Choices helps writers understand how grammar allows them to create meaning, control the strength of their claims, and organize information beyond the sentence. Grammar Choices can be used as a standalone textbook, a self-study reference guide, or as a companion text to Swales & Feak’s Academic Writing for Graduate Students. For details about the publication schedule and to reserve your exam copy, please contact the University of Michigan Press, or write to me!
Available now:
Q: Skills for Success – Reading/Writing, Level 5 (Advanced).
by Nigel A. Caplan and Scott Roy Douglas. Oxford University Press (2011). Buy now from amazon.com.
“The course that connects critical thinking, language skills, and student learning outcomes.” With topics from language extinction to international seed banks, and road design to map making, as well as a complete short story by Nick Hornby, there’s bound to be something for every classroom! (More details.)
Step Up to the TOEFL® iBT: For Students at the Basic Level
by Nigel A. Caplan. University of Michigan Press, 2010.
Available now from the publisher or from amazon.com.
A multi-skills book for high-beginning to low-intermediate ESL students preparing for the Internet-Based Test of English as a Foreign Language®. This level in the Step Up series focuses on expanding vocabulary but also teaches essential grammar and speaking skills. The book comes with an audio CD, transcript, and answer key, as well as a companion site with additional recordings.
Step Up to the TOEFL® iBT for Intermediate Students
by Nigel A. Caplan. University of Michigan Press, 2009.
Available now from the publisher or from amazon.com
Step Up to the TOEFL® iBT is a skills-based textbook designed to address the needs of students who have not yet reached a language level to successfully prepare for the TOEFL® iBT. This volume does what no other textbook does: it helps intermediate-level students take a “step up” toward preparing themselves for the iBT by teaching and developing some of the grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation skills necessary to do well on the test.
Are you using one of my books? Please let me know what you like … and don’t like!
