The Academic Writer's Handbook
ISBN: 9780205599103 | 0205599109
Edition: 2ndFormat: Spiral Bound
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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With its unique focus on source-based writing and writing across the curriculum,The Academic Writerrs"s Handbookcontains all the features of a traditional handbook combined with the tools students need in order to read, write, and conduct research in the disciplines.
| The Writing Process | |
| What Is Academic Writing? | |
| What is the proper subject of academic writing? | |
| Characteristics of academic writing | |
| The Academic Writerrsquo;s Handbook | |
| Preparing to Write in an Academic Setting | |
| Understanding your assignment | |
| Generating ideas and information | |
| Selecting, organizing, expanding information | ... MORE |
| Writing a Working Thesis and a First Draft | |
| Writing a working thesis | |
| Writing a first draft | |
| Sample student paper: first draft | |
| Revising the Paper | |
| Global revision: bringing your main ideas into focus | |
| Section-level revision: developing your main idea | |
| Sentence-level revision | |
| Responding to editorial advice from peers and instructors | |
| Sample student paper: final draft ldquo;keep the laptops, change the teachingrdquo; | |
| Paragraphs: Building Blocks of Academic Writing | |
| Unity: giving each paragraph a controlling idea and sticking to it | |
| Coherence: moving from sentence to sentence with a plan | |
| Developing the content of paragraphs | |
| Writing and revising introductions and conclusions | |
| Document Design | |
| Text and document design | |
| Images and document design | |
| The importance of document design | |
| Working with Individual Sources | |
| Understanding and Evaluating Print Sources | |
| Understanding print sources | |
| Evaluating print sources | |
| Example evaluation | |
| Reading sources carefully | |
| Understanding and Evaluating Web Sites and Images | |
| Understanding web sites | |
| Evaluating web sites | |
| Understanding images | |
| Evaluating images | |
| Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources | |
| Referring to sources | |
| Summarizing and paraphrasing sources | |
| Quoting sources | |
| Altering quotations | |
| Weaving summaries, paraphrases, and quotations into your paragraphs | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Citing sources | |
| Causes of plagiarism | |
| Rules for avoiding plagiarism | |
| Determining common knowledge | |
| Plagiarism and the internet | |
| Collaborating and plagiarism | |
| Research: Locating and Synthesizing Multiple Sources | |
| The Research Process | |
| Defining the task: topic, purpose, and audience | |
| Identifying your research question | |
| Generating a plan for research | |
| Devising a working thesis and writing a draft | |
| Record-keeping: creating a working bibliography | |
| Locating Electronic and Print Sources | |
| Revie | |
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