Lexical Help

As I read the book I kept thinking about the graduate student who comes here to do a master's degree - grammar is good general vocab OK

or the adult who is working in a technical field, who knows the field but not the English



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How can we help with getting them familar with conventions of their chosen discipline?

Is the most helpful thing to help their teacher/co worker/partner/colleague help them?

How familar are we with specific disciplines?

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On a more practical level

I went to a writing workshop once where we took passages from great writers. We looked at

secific parts of speech,
function in the discourse,
grammar,
puctiation ,
sentence construction,
word length
word level....

and then wrote a parallel passage.

It was very tedious.

It was also very helpful.