English for Academic Purposes

The rules nobody writes down. Now written down.

International students are told to be more critical, to write academically, and to use more evidence. They are rarely told what those instructions actually mean. English for Academic Purposes makes university expectations visible and teaches the moves that experienced academics make without thinking about them.

Sixteen chapters take you from reading a source to defending a research proposal:

Read strategically and reconstruct an author's argument

Turn a topic into a question you can actually answer

Build arguments with claims calibrated to your evidence

Paraphrase without patch-writing, and cite accurately in APA 7

Synthesize sources into a literature review, not a list

Present and participate in seminars with confidence

Use generative AI transparently, and verify what it gives you

Every chapter includes explicit learning objectives, annotated model texts, before-and-after revisions, common pitfalls, and practice tasks you apply to your own coursework. Six appendices add an academic phrase-bank organized by rhetorical function, a grammar reference for academic writing, an APA 7 quick guide, answer guidance for every practice task, a seven-criterion assessment rubric, and a glossary of ninety-nine terms.

Written for international undergraduates and graduate students, EAP and academic-writing courses, writing centers, and any student who writes correct English and still cannot work out what the grade depended on. Useful for instructors as a semester course text: the five parts map onto a fifteen-week schedule, with guidance for ten-week and research-methods variants.

Zahir Hasan, MPPA, LLM, EdD, teaches at a university in Tokyo. He holds degrees in economics and political science, public policy and administration, law, and education, and was educated in the United States and Europe.