Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students; Now With MLA 2021 Updates - Softcover

Starkey, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554815096 ISBN 13: 9781554815098

Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd, 2021

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Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students is a rhetoric designed to cover the basics of a college writing course in a concise, student-friendly format. Each chapter concentrates on a crucial element of composing an academic essay and is capable of being read in a single sitting. The book is loaded with “timesaver tips,” ideas for making the most of the student’s time, along with occasional warnings to avoid common errors made by student writers.

Each short chapter concludes with questions and suggestions designed to trigger class discussion. David Starkey’s rhetoric is also available in an edition with 23 thought-provoking readings that serve as models for analysis and discussion: Academic Writing Now - with Readings

The second edition has been updated throughout, with special attention to making the book even better suited to accelerated and co-requisite composition courses. MLA citation style has been updated to reflect 2021 changes, and a current APA citation guide is new to the second edition.

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David Starkey is Emeritus Professor of English at Santa Barbara City College, where he served as Director of Composition and Creative Writing. He is the author of Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief and the editor of Teaching Accelerated and Corequisite Composition and two collections of scholarly essays on composition and creative writing: Teaching Writing Creatively and Genre by Example: Writing What We Teach.

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Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students is a rhetoric designed to cover the basics of a college writing course in a concise, student-friendly format. Each chapter concentrates on a crucial element of composing an academic essay and is capable of being read in a single sitting. The book is loaded with "timesaver tips," ideas for making the most of the student's time, along with occasional warnings to avoid common errors made by student writers.

Each short chapter concludes with questions and suggestions designed to trigger class discussion. David Starkey's rhetoric is also available in an edition with 23 thought-provoking readings that serve as models for analysis and discussion: Academic Writing Now - with Readings

The second edition has been updated throughout, with special attention to making the book even better suited to accelerated and co-requisite composition courses. MLA citation style has been updated to reflect 2021 changes, and a current APA citation guide is new to the second edition.

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• Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1554815096
• ISBN 13: 9781554815098
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242
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