Title:
Academic writing : exploring processes and strategies
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed
Publication Information:
New York : St Martin's Pr, 1995
ISBN:
9780312092146
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Summary
Summary
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 1 Overview Of The Writing Process |
| 1 Getting Started |
| Part 2 Writing From Observation And Experience |
| Unit 1 Getting the Draft |
| 2 Getting Ideas and Starting to Write |
| 3 Preparing for a Draft |
| 4 Writing a First Draft and Getting Feedback |
| Unit 2 Working with a Draft |
| 5 Focusing on Main Ideas |
| 6 Developing and Shaping Ideas |
| 7 Beginning and Ending Drafts |
| Unit 3 Reworking the Draft |
| 8 Revising |
| 9 Polishing Revised Drafts |
| Part 3 Applying Writing Processes For Academic Purposes: Analyzing, Evaluating, Arguing |
| Unit 4 Using Published Sources |
| 10 Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources |
| 11 Documenting Sources |
| Unit 5 Academic Writing Tasks |
| 12 Analyzing Issues; Responding to Written Arguments |
| 14 Arguing from Written Material |
| Unit 6 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 |
