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Summary:

A practical workbook of 50 exercises, helping you build your writing skills and master the specifics of academic writing.

Table of Contents:

• Get ready to practice
• Establish and maintain the "write" habit
• Practice building academic vocabulary
• Polish the grammar
• Get feedback
• Edit and proofread
• Exercises for writing introductions, purpose statements, or specific aims sections
• Exercises for writing the methods section
• Exercises for writing the results/findings section
• Exercises for writing the discussion or conclusion section
• Exercise for writing abstracts
• Reading-&-writing: how to stop making the literature review an excuse for not writing.

Author/Creator:

Goodson, Patricia, 1958- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Becoming an academic writer: 50 exercises for paced, productive, and powerful writing [by Goodson, P.]

Subjects:

English language — Rhetoric

Report writing

Academic writing

English language

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and indexes.

Physical Description:

xxv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

PE1408 .G585 2017

ISBNs:

9781483376257 (pbk.)
1483376257 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2015038931

OCLC Numbers:

933446607