Discoveries in Academic Writing

Discoveries in Academic Writing

Author: Barbara Harris Leonhard

Publisher: Heinle&Heinle

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13:

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Students learn how to develop and organize unified essays through exploration of the principles of academic writing, critical thinking skills, rhetorical modes, and peer review.


Discoveries

Discoveries

Author: Kate Mangelsdorf

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Published: 2005-10-07

Total Pages: 752

ISBN-13: 9780312390655

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A process-driven basic rhetoric with handbook, Discoveries gives students the guidance, practice, and confidence they need to write successful paragraphs and essays. The authors' steady step-by-step approach provides a firm footing for basic writers, presenting the writing process for each assignment as clearly sequenced skills that students can master incrementally.


The Handbook Of Academic Writing: A Fresh Approach

The Handbook Of Academic Writing: A Fresh Approach

Author: Murray, Rowena

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2006-10-01

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0335219330

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Writing is one of the most demanding tasks that academics and researchers face. In some disciplines we learn some of what we need to know to be productive, successful writers; but in other disciplines there is no training, support or mentoring of any kind.


Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

Author: Joyce Appleby

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2013-10-14

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0393239519

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Recounts the triumphs and mishaps of Columbus and other explorers, following the naturalists--both famous and obscure--whose investigations of the world's fauna and flora fueled the rise of science and technology that propelled Western Europe towards modernity.


Introduction to Academic Writing

Introduction to Academic Writing

Author: Alice Oshima

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9780132410281

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This book helps "students to master the standard organizational patterns of the paragraph and the basic concepts of essay writing. The text's time-proven approach integrates the study of rhetorical patterns and the writing process with extensive practice in sentence structure and mechanics." - product description.


Ideas Into Words

Ideas Into Words

Author: Elise Hancock

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2003-06-17

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780801873294

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From the latest breakthroughs in medical research and information technologies to new discoveries about the diversity of life on earth, science is becoming both more specialized and more relevant. Consequently, the need for writers who can clarify these breakthroughs and discoveries for the general public has become acute. In Ideas into Words, Elise Hancock, a professional writer and editor with thirty years of experience, provides both novice and seasoned science writers with the practical advice and canny insights they need to take their craft to the next level. Rich with real-life examples and anecdotes, this book covers the essentials of science writing: finding story ideas, learning the science, opening and shaping a piece, polishing drafts, overcoming blocks, and conducting interviews with scientists and other experts who may not be accustomed to making their ideas understandable to lay readers. Hancock's wisdom will prove useful to anyone pursuing nonfiction writing as a career. She devotes an entire chapter to habits and attitudes that writers should cultivate, another to structure, and a third to the art of revision. Some of her advice is surprising (she cautions against s


Academic Vocabulary in Learner Writing

Academic Vocabulary in Learner Writing

Author: Magali Paquot

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-07-22

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1441191143

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Academic vocabulary is in fashion, as witnessed by the increasing number of books published on the topic. In the first part of this book, Magali Paquot scrutinizes the concept of 'academic vocabulary' and proposes a corpus-driven procedure based on the criteria of keyness, range and evenness of distribution to select academic words that could be part of a common-core academic vocabulary syllabus. In the second part, the author offers a thorough analysis of academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) and describes the factors that account for learners' difficulties in academic writing. She then focuses on the role of corpora, and more particularly, learner corpora, in EAP material design. It is the first monograph in which Granger's (1996) Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis is used to compare 10 ICLE learner sub-corpora, in order to distinguish between linguistic features that are shared by learners from a wide range of mother tongue backgrounds and unique features that may be transfer-related.


The Discoveries

The Discoveries

Author: Alan Lightman

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2010-10-22

Total Pages: 820

ISBN-13: 0307369862

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An extraordinarily accessible, illuminating chronicle of the great moments of scientific discovery in the 20th century, and an exploration into the minds of the remarkable men and women behind them. We know and read the literary masterpieces; how many of us have had the opportunity not only to read but understand the masterpieces of science that describe the very moment of discovery? The last century has seen an explosion of creativity and insight that led to breakthroughs in every field of science: from the theory of relativity to the first quantum model of the atom to the mapping of the structure of DNA, these discoveries profoundly changed how we understand the world and our place in it. Alan Lightman tells the stories of two dozen breakthroughs made by such brilliant scientists as Einstein, Bohr, McClintock and Pauling, among others, drawing on his unique background as a scientist and novelist to reveal the process of scientific discovery at its greatest. He outlines the intellectual and emotional landscape of each discovery, portrays the personalities and human drama of the scientists involved, and explains the significance and impact of the work. Finally, he gives an unprecedented and exhilarating guided tour through each of the original papers.


How Very Young Children Explore Writing

How Very Young Children Explore Writing

Author: Marie M. Clay

Publisher:

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781407160054

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One in three of the Early Literacy Series written for parents, caregivers, early childhood teachers and teachers of children in their first years at school. It presents research-based ideas for at-home instruction in beginning reading concepts, encourages effective one-to-one learning situations and supports in implementing key strategies to develop reading skills.


The Logic of Scientific Discovery

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Author: Karl Popper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-11-04

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1134470029

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Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as post-war philosophy. This astonishing work ranks alongside The Open Society and Its Enemies as one of Popper's most enduring books and contains insights and arguments that demand to be read to this day.