In Focus: Strategies for Academic Writers

Name: In Focus: Strategies for Academic Writers
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ISBN: 9780472030750

ISBN-10: 0472030752

ISBN-13: 9780472030750

Edition: 2005

Authors: Myra Ann Shulman

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Native and nonnative speakers who need a concise guide to academic writing will appreciate this useful book. In Focus: Strategies for Academic Writers covers a wide variety of common academic writing tasks, including paragraphs, summaries, short essays, critical reviews, synthesis papers, argumentative papers, research papers, and impromptu response writing. This textbook incorporates the process approach to writing and presents strategies for every aspect of the pre-writing and writing process. The Focus Approach helps students analyze the writing task at hand and clarify the goals of their projects, while the Power Writing Process allows students to complete the writing and revision of…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 9/19/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.342




The focused writer



The power writing process



Writer's block



Skillful proofreading and editing



Effective style



The cohesive paragraph



The accurate summary



The logical essay



The objective critical review



The balanced synthesis



The persuasive argument



The scholarly research paper



Your authentic voice



Definitions of writing terms



Examples of writing styles



Sentence connectors



The power writing process



Writing evaluation forms



Internet research



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