Synopses & Reviews
This book provides instruction on the process writers go through to produce texts. It teaches attention to form, format and accuracy. The central goals of the Student's Book are to teach the process that writers go through to produce texts, and to provide instructions on how to meet the demands of the academy by attention to form and accuracy. One half of the book is devoted to leading the student through the process of writing from observation and experience. About a quarter of the book focuses on helping the student solve the writing problems typical of university-level course work. The remaining part of the book contains an anthology of readings that correspond to the assignments used in the earlier portions of the text. Through an emphasis on the academic applications of writing and on exploring processes and strategies, this text helps students produce, prepare, and polish their writing.
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Academic Writing develops students' academic writing skills through a clear sequence of instruction and assignments.
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Teaches the process that writers go through to produce texts and provides instruction on form, format and accuracy.
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By emphasizing the academic applications of writing by exploring processes and strategies, this text helps students produce, prepare, and polish their writing.
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Academic Writing helps novice writers to develop confidence, express their own ideas, and experience success. The text guides students through the process of generating ideas, getting feedback, revising, and editing. Through its clear presentation and sequence of assignments, Academic Writing helps students develop competence in all of these areas.
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Academic Writing: Exploring Processes and Strategies, Second Edition helps novice writers develop confidence by offering them many opportunities to express their own ideas, to receive feedback in a nonthreatening environment, and to experience success. Emphasizing the academic applications of key principles of writing, the text guides students through the process of exploration and generation of ideas, seeking out appropriate feedback, and rewording and revising the presentation of ideas. Through its clear presentation and sequence of assignments, Academic Writing helps students develop competence in all of these areas.
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While taking students through the writing process, this book also teaches attention to form, format, and accuracy. Academic Writing is an advanced, process-oriented writing text. The central goals are to teach the process that writers go through to produce texts and to provide instruction on how to meet the demands of the academy through attention to form and accuracy.
Table of Contents
'PART ONE: OVERVIEW OF THE WRITING PROCESS; 1: Getting Started; PART TWO: WRITING FROM OBSERVATION AND EXPERIENCE; Unit One: Getting the Draft; 2: Getting Ideas and Starting to Write; 3: Preparing for a Draft; 4: Writing a First Draft and Getting Feedback; Unit Two: Working with a Draft; 5: Focusing on Main Ideas; 6: Developing and Shaping Ideas; 7: Beginning and Ending Drafts; Unit Three: Reworking the Draft; 8: Revising; 9: Polishing Revised Drafts; PART THREE: APPLYING WRITING PROCESSES FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES: ANALYZING, EVALUATING, ARGUING; Unit Four: Using Published Sources; 10: Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources; 11: Documenting Sources; Unit Five: Academic Writing Tasks; 12: Analyzing Issues; Responding to Written Arguments; 14: Arguing from Written Material; Unit Six: Essay Exams: Some Strategies; 15: Preparing for an Essay Exam; 16: Practing Taking Essay Exams; Postscript; APPENDIXES; A: Readings; B: Editing Exercises; C: Answers to Exercises\n
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