Essays Only You Can Write

ISBN-13: 9781554815760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 224 str.

Irene Papoulis

Opis

The Essays Only You Can Write offers a perspective on essay writing that spotlights a writerâs uniqueness. Resisting the perception that personal and academic writing are at odds with one another, it treats the impulse to write âpersonallyâ as potential fuel for a variety of writing purposes. The book encourages students to think like academicsâpursuing their enthusiasms, trusting their ideas, and questioning their conclusionsâby leading them through three main writing assignments: a personal essay, an essay based on texts, and a research essay. Each chapter offers exercises and strategies for various stages in the pre-writing, drafting, and revision processes. Freewriting; extensive attention to planning; devising a structure and order of ideas that both promote and reflect engagement with a topic; developing rhetorical awareness and knowledge of conventions; and an advocacy for expressive, socially-responsible writingâall are central elements of the textâs instruction. By acknowledging the emotions inherent in the writing process, many of which can muddle thinkingâI donât want anyone to see this; what if I make mistakes?; what if the writing isnât good?; I donât want to be critiqued; etc.âPapoulis helps beginning college writers to navigate the psychological as well as the technical roadblocks that can get in the way of their best personal and academic writing. Instructor Resources covering all aspects of the book are included on a passcoded webpage.