Activities to improve your writing in key areas such as evaluating ideas, explaining concepts and expressing opinions Section 1 focuses on Vocabulary Skills (Units 1-7) Covers 650 key words, with opportunities to practise words more than once Authentic texts, showing how the words are used in academic writing Highlighting of words from the Academic Word List 650-word glossary with definitions and phonetics for all keywords Useful reference sections on collocations, affixes and dependent prepositions Complete answer key to all exercises for self-study More practice exercises and short writing tasks available at www.oup.com/elt/academicvocabulary Also available: Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English (print and app) and Oxford Grammar for EAP