Academic Writing

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Teaches the process that writers go through to produce texts and provides instruction on 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 the earlier portions of the text.

Through an emphasis on the academic applications of writing and on exploring processes and strategies, this text helps students

• produce, prepare, and polish their writing. Contents: PART ONE:
• OVERVIEW OF THE WRITING PROCESS; 1: Getting Started; PART TWO:
• WRITING FROM OBSERVATION AND EXPERIENCE; Unit One: Getting the
• Draft; 2: Getting Ideas and Starting to Write; 3: Preparing for a
• Draft; 4: Writing a First Draft and Getting Feedback; Unit Two:
• Working with a Draft; 5: Focusing on Main Ideas; 6: Developing and
• Shaping Ideas; 7: Beginning and Ending Drafts; Unit Three:
• Reworking the Draft; 8: Revising; 9: Polishing Revised Drafts; PART
• THREE: APPLYING WRITING PROCESSES FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES: ANALYZING,
• EVALUATING, ARGUING; Unit Four: Using Published Sources; 10:
• Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources; 11: Documenting
• Sources; Unit Five: Academic Writing Tasks; 12: Analyzing Issues;
• Responding to Written Arguments; 14: Arguing from Written Material;
• Unit Six: 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