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Effective Academic Writing

Effective Academic Writing

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An essay-writing handbook for school and university.

Effective Academic Writing is a workbook for high school and 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.

This book takes the mystery out of academic writing. With this workbook, novice writers will be able to approach the writing process with new found confidence.

DESCRIPTION

This book 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.

BOOK DETAILS

Contents
INTRODUCTION

TOPIC 1 THE BIG PICTURE

Academic culture
Critical stance
Persuasive writing
Judgement
Spoken and written language
Social purpose and context
Academic writing
Essays and genres
TOPIC 2 LANGUAGE – NOUNS AND NOUN GROUPS

The meanings and structure of nouns
Common nouns
Nominalisation
The noun group
The function of different types of nouns
The importance of noun groups in academic writing
TOPIC 3 LANGUAGE – VERB GROUPS AND THE CLAUSE

Verbs
The meaning/semantics of verbs
Function of verbs in academic writing
The structure of the verb group
Tense in the verb group
Voice in the verb group
Polarity in the verb group
Modality in the verb group
The clause
TOPIC 4 MIDDLE GROUND – PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE

The sentence
The paragraph
The topic sentence
Supporting sentences
Theme and Rheme
Choosing themes
Rheme
Thematic development
TOPIC 5 MIDDLE GROUND – COHESION

Cohesion
Conjunction
Reference
Presuming participants
Common reference mistakes
Reference nouns
TOPIC 6 MIDDLE GROUND – USING EVIDENCE AND PARAPHRASING

The function of the supporting sentence
The topic sentence and the essay preview
Evidence in supporting sentences
Referring to the literature
Paraphrasing and summarising
Strategies for paraphrasing
Strategies for summarising
TOPIC 7 THE BIG PICTURE – CITATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Citations
Bibliography and reference list
TOPIC 8 THE BIG PICTURE – ESSAY QUESTIONS AND OUTLINES

Interpreting the essay question
Developing the essay outline
Abstract essay outlines
TOPIC 9 THE BIG PICTURE – INFORMATION REPORTS

Information reports
Descriptive information reports
Taxonomic information reports
TOPIC 10 THE BIG PICTURE – EXPLANATIONS

Explanations
Sequential explanations – how things happen
Taxonomic information reports – why things happen
The language of cause and effect
TOPIC 11 THE BIG PICTURE – EXPOSITIONS

Expositions
Integrating other text-types into expositions
The language of Expositions
Spoken versus written language
Using language to evaluate
Modality
Graduation
Engagement
Heteroglossia
TOPIC 12 THE BIG PICTURE – DISCUSSIONS

Discussions
Organising the arguments
The language of Discussions
ANSWERS

REFERENCES

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Author: Elizabeth Thomson and Louise Droga,
Publisher: Phoenix
ISBN 9781921586613
Year Level Year 10, Year 11, Year 12 and university

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