Inside Writing Intro Student Book: The Academic Word List in Context

by Walton Burns

Inside Writing prepares students to produce a variety of academic texts, while focusing on key academic vocabulary from the Academic Word List.
Each unit of Inside Writing features examples of authentic academic text types, develops writing techniques such as analyzing audience and purpose, and teaches target vocabulary from the Academic Word List.

152 pages, Paperback

First published August 10, 2014

About the author

Walton Burns is a teacher and award-winning materials writer from the US who began his career in 2001, teaching in the Peace Corps in the South Pacific. Since then, he has taught in Central Asia and in his native country. His students have been a diverse group, including Russian oil executives, Afghan high school students, and Chinese video game champions. As a writer, he has been on the author team of two textbooks and written lesson plans and activities for private language schools. He is currently chair of the Materials Writing Interest Section of the TESOL Association, the international association for English language professionals. For more information, including projects he has worked on, go to his online portfolio of projects he has undertaken..