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Summary:

"Unlike some college composition guides the size of phonebooks and about as interesting, The Mad Scientist's Guide to Composition seeks to be fun, funny, and a little cheeky. Considering the composition classroom as a 'mad scientist's laboratory, ' this guide introduces different kinds of writing as 'experiments.' 'Writing an essay' is a task that can strike fear into a student's heart, but performing an experiment--that licenses creativity and doesn't presume that one knows the outcome from the start. This loose theme lends coherence to the approach to composition, while encouraging students to have fun with writing. The Mad Scientist's Guide covers the kinds of writing most often required on college campuses, while also addressing important steps and activities frequently overlooked in composition guides, such as revision and peer reviewing. Actual examples of student writing are included throughout, as are helpful reminders and tips to help students polish their skills. First and foremost, the Mad Scientist's Guide seeks to make writing fun."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Nuts and bolts (mechanics)
• Graverobbing (Finding, evaluating, and incorporating sources)
• Readying the lab (Brainstorming, formulating an argument, outlining)
• Conducting experiments (Writing to inform, writing to persuade, and writing to evaluate)
• The monster lives! ... or does it? (Revision, peer reviewing, retroactive outlining)
• Placating ghosts (Systems of citing sources to avoid angering the dead ... and the living)
• The great beyond

Author/Creator:

Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The mad scientist's guide to composition*: (a somewhat cheeky but exceedingly useful introduction to academic writing): *now with 100% more monsters! [by Weinstock, J.A.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Mad scientist's guide to composition* [by Weinstock, J.A.] (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada : Broadview Press, 2019 — ISBN 1770487239; ISBN 9781770487239; OCLC Number 1112607010)

Subjects:

Academic writing — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Report writing — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English language — Rhetoric — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Academic writing

English language — Rhetoric

Report writing

English language

Genres:

Handbooks and manuals

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xvi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

PE1408 .W4785 2020

ISBNs:

9781554814459 (paperback)
1554814456 (paperback)
9781770487239 (PDF) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1097960237