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Sequence for Academic Writing, A
ISBN: 9780205674374 | 0205674372
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2010
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A Sequence for Academic Writing focuses on the key strategies that any academic writer needs to know -- summary, synthesis, analysis, and critique. Building off of the hallmark writing instruction of the best-sellingWriting and Reading Across the Curriculum, this writing guide focuses on the critical reading and writing strategies that students need in order to thoughtfully interpret and incorporate source material into their own papers. The text employs high-interest readings from a range of disciplines to allow students to practice these stra... MORE
| Preface for Instructors | |
| Note to the Student | |
| Structures | |
| -Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation | |
| What Is a Summary? | |
| Can a Summary Be Objective? | |
| Using the Summary | |
| Box: Where do We Find Written Summaries? | |
| The Reading Process | |
| Box: Critical Reading for Summary | |
| How to Write Summaries | ... MORE|
| Box: Guidelines for Writing Summaries | |
| Demonstration: Summary | |
| Will Your Job be Exported? | |
| Read, Reread, Underline | |
| Divide into Stages of Thought | |
| Write a Brief Summary of Each Stage of Thought | |
| Write a Thesis: A Brief Summary of the Entire Passage | |
| Write the First Draft of the Summary | |
| Combine Thesis Sentence | |
| Brief Section Summaries | |
| Combine Thesis Sentence, Section Summaries, and Carefully Chosen Details | |
| How Long Should a Summary Be? | |
| Individual and Collaborative Summary Practice | |
| Summarizing a Narrative or Personal Essay | |
| Dreams of Patagonia-Bruce Chatwin | |
| Box: How to Summarize Personal Essays and Narratives | |
| Summarizing Figures and Tables | |
| Summarizing Graphs | |
| Summarizing Pie Charts | |
| Summarizing Line Graphs | |
| Summarizing Tables Paraphrase | |
| Box: How to Write Paraphrases | |
| Summarizing and Paraphrasing | |
| More Paraphrasing Quotations | |
| Choosing Quotations | |
| Quoting Memorable Language | |
| Box: When to Quote Quoting | |
| Clear and Concise Language Quoting | |
| Authoritative Language | |
| Incorporating Quotations into Your Sentences | |
| Quoting Only the Part of a Sentence or Paragraph That You Need | |
| Incorporating the Quotation into the Flow of Your Own Sentence | |
| Avoiding Freestanding Quotations | |
| Incorporating Quotations | |
| Using Ellipses | |
| Using Brackets to Add or Subs | |
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