The OXFORD LEARNER'S DICTIONARY OF ACADEMIC ENGLISH helps you learn the words and phrases used in academic writing, and shows you how to use them in your own academic written work. The Dictionary shows you how to link words together, how to build phrases and sentences, and how to present a convincing argument. It will help you develop an academic writing style that is clear, precise and appropriate. The Dictionary includes a 48-page Oxford Academic Writing Tutor and interactive Oxford Academic iWriter on CD-ROM with model texts and tips which show you how to structure and write a range of assignments, such as essays, case studies and dissertations. 22,000 words, phrases and meanings; 50,000 corpus-based example sentences; 690 notes showing collocations and word patterns 80 Thesaurus notes, Grammar Points and Which Word? Notes; Language Banks help with functions such as linking ideas and describing trends. The OXFORD LEARNER'S DICTIONARY OF ACADEMIC ENGLISH is the only learner's dictionary to focus exclusively on academic English. It is informed by the 85-million-word Oxford Corpus of Academic English and shows you how general English words are used in different ways across academic subject areas such as the humanities and the physical, life, and social sciences.