Academic Writing Exploring Processes and Strategies

Name: Academic Writing Exploring Processes and Strategies
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ISBN: 9780521657686

ISBN-10: 0521657687

ISBN-13: 9780521657686

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Ilona Leki

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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…

Book details

List price: $60.75
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 7/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.29" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




Overview Of The Writing Process



Getting Started



Writing From Observation And Experience



Getting the Draft



Getting Ideas and Starting to Write



Preparing for a Draft



Writing a First Draft and Getting Feedback



Working with a Draft



Focusing on Main Ideas



Developing and Shaping Ideas



Beginning and Ending Drafts



Reworking the Draft



Revising



Polishing Revised Drafts



Applying Writing Processes For Academic Purposes: Analyzing, Evaluating, Arguing



Using Published Sources



Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources



Documenting Sources



Academic Writing Tasks



Analyzing Issues; Responding to Written Arguments



Arguing from Written Material



Essay Exams: Some Strategies



Preparing for an Essay Exam



Practing Taking Essay Exams


Postscript


Appendixes



Readings



Editing Exercises



Answers to Exercises