Good College Writing
Good College Writing

Author: Zachary Stewart

Publisher:

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781516572540

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Humorous, accessible, and anecdotal, Good College Writing: A How-To Guide helps students develop the foundational writing skills required to produce effective sentences, paragraphs, and essays in a clear and concise manner. Each chapter of the text features easy-to-understand lessons and carefully selected readings that demonstrate key concepts and skill sets. The book begins with a chapter that explains to students how writing for college courses is diff

The Transition to College Writing
The Transition to College Writing

Author: Keith Hjortshoj

Publisher: Bedford Books

Published: 2009-01-12

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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This brief rhetoric introduces the essential reading and writing strategies students need to succeed in courses across the curriculum. Taking the transition from high school to college as his starting point, Hjortshoj speaks directly and honestly to students, offering them practical strategies to shed ineffective habits and move toward a more mature, flexible understanding of how to respond to academic challenges. Distilling information about writing assignments from across the curriculum, Hjortshoj shows students how to decode these assignments and approach them effectively. The second edition offers more advice on how to meet the difficult challenge of synthesizing and integrating sources, and the text has been streamlined to be a better reference.

College Writing and Beyond
College Writing and Beyond

Author: Anne Beaufort

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2020-08-24

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 087421663X

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div Composition research consistently demonstrates that the social context of writing determines the majority of conventions any writer must observe. Still, most universities organize the required first-year composition course as if there were an intuitive set of general writing "skills" usable across academic and work-world settings. In College Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for University Writing Instruction, Anne Beaufort reports on a longitudinal study comparing one student’s experience in FYC, in history, in engineering,;

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (2nd Edition)
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (2nd Edition)

Author: Michael Harvey

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2013-06-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1603848983

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This worthy successor to Strunk and White* now features an expanded style guide covering a wider range of citation cases, complete with up-to-date formats for Chicago, MLA, and APA styles.

Effective Writing Skills for Social Work Students
Effective Writing Skills for Social Work Students

Author: Philip Musson

Publisher: Learning Matters

Published: 2011-06-17

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 0857254197

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This concise text is written specifically to help students and practitioners hone their techniques and develop their skills when it comes to writing in a clear, accessible and, above all, rigorous manner. There are sections on good essay writing and how to construct an argument, referencing and plagiarism, and reflective and critical writing. More than just another study skills book, Effective Writing Skills for Social Work is focused on real, day-to-day practice issues and the complex academic demands faced by social work students.

Engaging Ideas
Engaging Ideas

Author: John C. Bean

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-07-20

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1118062337

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Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues.

Critical Passages
Critical Passages

Author: Kristin Dombek

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780807744154

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This practical handbook examines the gap between high school and college-level writing instruction, providing teachers with guidance for helping their students make the transition, including strategies for dealing with the many challenges of the writing classroom.