Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students with MLA 2016 Update

ISBN-13: 9781554813803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str.

David Starkey

Opis

This handy guide helps time-pressed students to write successful academic essays.

Spis treści

• Preface for Instructors:
• Busy, Busy, Busy
• Introduction for Students:
• Strategies for Succeeding as a College Writer
• Part One: Ready, Set…
• Chapter 1. Academic Writing: An Overview
• Why Write?
• Writing as Inquiry and Process
• High-School vs. University English
• What Do Professors Really Want?
• Questions and Suggestions FOR You
• Questions and Suggestions FROM You
• Chapter 2. Academic Reading
• Effective Reading Habits
• Annotation
• Double-Entry Journal
• Analysis
• Summary
• Reverse Outline
• Paraphrase
• Quotations
• Questions and Suggestions FOR You
• Questions and Suggestions FROM You
• Chapter 3. Ideas into Text
• Getting Started
• Lightning Research
• Invention
• The Three Appeals
• Discussion
• Sooner Rather than Later
• Questions and Suggestions FOR You
• Questions and Suggestions FROM You
• Chapter 4. Arguments and Organization
• Thesis Statements
• Outlines
• Considering Other Perspectives
• Topic Sentences
• Questions and Suggestions FOR You
• Questions and Suggestions FROM You
• Chapter 5. Researching Your Topic
• The CARS Checklist
• Library Databases
• Books
• Internet Sources
• Questions and Suggestions FOR You
• Questions and Suggestions FROM You
• Part Two: Go
• Chapter 6. Introduction: Hooking Your Reader
• Opening Sentences
• Topic Overview
• Ending with Your Thesis
• Questions and Suggestions FOR You
• Questions and Suggestions FROM You
• Chapter 7. Body Paragraphs: And I Ought to Keep Reading Because?
• Paragraph Structure
• Transitions
• Expert Opinions and Concrete Evidence
• Quotations
• Interviews and Surveys
• Narrative and Description
• Multimodal Moves
• Questions and Suggestions FOR You
• Questions and Suggestions FROM You
• Chapter 8. Conclusion: Wait…Don’t Stop
• Conclusion Dos and Don’ts
• Questions and Suggestions FOR You
• Questions and Suggestions FROM You
• Part Three: Go Again
• Chapter 9. Taking Another Look
• Revision and Editing Strategies
• Questions and Suggestions FOR You
• Questions and Suggestions FROM You
• CHAPTER 10. Handing It Over
• Design and Presentation
• Proofreading
• Titles
• Caroline’s Revision
• Knowing When to Stop
• Questions and Suggestions FOR You
• Questions and Suggestions FROM You
• APPENDIX I: Genres of Academic Writing
• Analyzing a Text
• Arguing a Position
• Proposing a Solution
• Making an Evaluation
• APPENDIX II: A Brief Guide to Documentation
• Citing Your Sources
• Sample Citations
• Permissions Acknowledgements
• Index