Abstract:
The focus of this dictionary is clear from the contrasting colours and fonts of the cover title: 'Cambridge academic content dictionary', with the first and last words in white, and 'Academic Content' in blue. The blurb emphasises the academic focus: 'With more than 2,000 content-area words, from algebra to zoology'. In all, there is a promising-sounding 1,113 pages of definitions and a 20-page, largely science-based, reference section at the end. This makes it a fairly hefty book for its suggested target users (high school students and beyond) to carry around. It comes with a CD-ROM dictionary/thesaurus. As a teacher of EAP courses for tertiary ESOL students, I was keen to see the quantity and type of academic _content that this dictionary offers.