Effective academic writing
Subtitle: an essay-writing workbook for school and university
By: Elizabeth Thomson, Louise Droga
Contributors: Droga, Louise, author
Publisher: Phoenix Education
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Putney, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781921586613
Subjects: English language; Composition and exercises; Academic writing; Problems, exercises; Rhetoric
Description: "Effective Academic Writing is a workbook for university students who are keen to understand and improve their academic writing skills. It provides students and teachers with a framework for understanding writing and offers many useful writing activities at sentence, paragraph and essay level for learning and teaching. The book explains four highly valued essay types which university students are expected to write. These are information reports, explanations, expositions and discussions. In addition, managing essay questions, citations and evidence are also addressed and practised."--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. The big picture; title: 2. Language; title: nouns and noun groups; title: 3. Language; title: verb groups and the clause; title: 4. Middle ground; title: paragraph structure; title: 5. Middle ground; title: cohesion; title: 6. Middle ground; title: using evidence and paraphrasing; title: 7. The big picture; title: citation and bibliography; title: 8. The big picture; title: essay questions and outlines; title: 9. The big picture; title: Iformation reports; title: 10. The big picture; title: explanatins; title: 11. The big picture; title: discussions.