Key Words for Academic Writers
by Rebecca Brittenham, Hildegard Hoeller
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

The forty-four alphabetically organized entries in Key Words for Academic Writers offer students advice on everything from developing a thesis statement to citing sources, and can be assigned in any order to suit the parameters of different writing assignments. Each entry uses examples from scholarly writing to explain a particular aspect of the writing or research process - summary, synthesis, argument - and provides concrete, manageable strategies and exercises to help students improve their writing.