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Author
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
How do I improve my essay writing skills? Where can I learn quickly how to improve my speech writing? How does writing for the web differ from conventional writing? Are there some categories of mistakes that people commonly make in attempting to write good prose? How can I be persuasive in my writing style? How did language evolve? What is 'genre theory'? How do I become creative in my prose writing? These and other curious and relevant questions...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This book critically explores academic interdisciplinarity, a relatively new area of student writing in our contemporary contexts, from different perspectives: disciplinary integration, generically diverse assessment tasks, linguistic capital, pedagogical practices, extra-disciplinarity, pedagogic desire, curricular issues, and socio-economic imperatives. Dr Chandrasoma's work also offers a comprehensive study of how student writers grapple Other...
Author
Series
Publisher
McGraw Hill Education/Open University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Busy academics must publish. To fulfil research output, they must write to a specific journal style and high standard while juggling other professional tasks. This book develops understanding of how writing happens, what good writing looks and feels like, what gets published and what does not and why.
This book unravels the process of writing academic papers. It tells readers what good papers look like and how they can be written.
Author
Series
Publisher
WAC Clearinghouse
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Emerging from the International WAC/WID Mapping Project, this collection of essays is meant to inform decision-making by teachers, program managers, and college/university administrators considering how writing can most appropriately be defined, managed, funded, and taught in the places where they work. Writing Programs Worldwide offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs. The authors...
Series
Studies in writing volume 24
Publisher
Emerald
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
University Writing: Selves and Texts in Academic Societies examines new trends in the different theoretical perspectives (cognitive, social and cultural) and derived practices in the activity of writing in higher education. These perspectives are analyzed on the basis of their conceptualization of the object academic and scientific writing; of the writers -- their identities, attitudes and perspectives, be it students, teachers or researchers; and...
Series
Publisher
Independent
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Write Here, Right Now: An interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research utilizes PressBooks to create and host a writing e-textbook for first year university students that would effectively integrate into the flipped classroom model. The textbook could also be used for non-flipped classroom designs, as the embedded videos, diagrams and linked modules would act as an all-in-one multimedia textbook geared towards multiple learning styles...