Chapter 1 Features and Techniques of Academic Writing inEnglish 1.1 Features of Academic Writing in English 1.2 Genre-Focused Approaches: to Base Writing onReading 1.3 Some Frequently Used Skills in Academic Papers Chapter 2 An Access to Disciplinary Authority and ItsEvaluation 2.1 Definition and Classification of Academic Papers 2.2 Examination Criteria for a Paper's Academic Value 2.3 Disciplinary Differences Chapter 3 Voicing Yourself, Citation and Plagiarism 3.1 Voicing Yourself:Some Techniques to Show the Writer'sIdentity 3.2 Building up Authority:Some Basic Methods to CiteReference Materials 3.3 Plagiarism Chapter 4 Conventions and Construct of an AcademicPaper 4.1 Titles 4.2 Abstract 4.3 Introduction 4.4 Methodology:Materials and Methods 4.5 Results 4.6 Discussion 4.7 Conclusion Chapter 5 Linguistic and Grammatical Issues 5.1 Dealing with data in tables or graphs 5.2 Frequently misused words 5.3 Articles 5.4 Effective sentence construct Chapter 6 Reference, Editing and Submitting 6.1 Reference Styles 6.2 Editing 6.3 Submitting References Supplement 1 ESI Field Definition Supplement 2 Top Journals in 17 Typical Research Fields