Saturday, November 10, 2018

A Students Writing Guide - How To Plan And Write Successful Essays - By "Gordon Taylor"


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Description
Are you struggling to meet your coursework deadlines? Finding it hard to get to grips with your essay topics? Does your writing sometimes lack structure and style? Would you like to improve your grades? This text covers everything a student needs to know about writing essays and papers in the humanities and social sciences. Starting from the common difficulties students face, it gives practical
examples of all the stages necessary to produce a good piece of
academic work:
1. Interpreting assignment topics
2. Drawing on your own experience and background
3. Reading analytically and taking efficient notes
4. Developing your argument through introductions, middles and conclusions
5. Evaluating and using online resources
6. Understanding the conventions of academic culture
7. Honing your ideas into clear, vigorous English.
This book will provide you with all the tools and insights you need to write confident, convincing essays and coursework papers. 

Content:-
Preface
Sources of extracts used in the text 
1 Introduction
Part I Reflection and Research
2 Reflection: asking questions and proposing answers
3 Interpretation: reading and taking notes
Part II The Dynamics of an Essay 
4 Introductions 
5 Middles
6 Endings
Part III Language
7 You, your language and your material
8 Analytical language 1: sentences
9 Analytical language 2: rhetorical strategies
10 Cohesion and texture
11 Conventions of academic writing
Appendices
Index

Author Details
"gordon taylor" is Honorary Research Associate at Monash University; before his retirement he was Associate Professor and Director of the Language and Learning Unit in the Faculty of Arts there. He was a pioneer in the development of content- and discipline-specific writing programmes for students in higher education. His many publications include The Student’s Writing Guide for the Arts and Social Sciences (1989).


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