Description
Book SynopsisAcademic 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. Anything inessential to the business of college writing has been excluded. 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.
The second edition has been updated throughout, with special attention to making the book even better suited to accelerated and co-requisite composition courses.
Trade ReviewDavid Starkey delivers clear, ordered advice in a voice so familiar and colloquial that anyone's anxiety about this often rigid, academic subject will start to calm. He moves seamlessly between examples ranging from everyday experience to the highest levels of great writing, and what I like best is that underneath it all he encourages students to keep creativity and poetic insight alive even as they tackle the challenge of writing rigorous, scholarly papers." - Richard Guzman, North Central College
Table of Contents
- Preface for Instructors: Busy, Busy, Busy
- Introduction for Students: Strategies for Succeeding as a College Writer
- Part One: Ready, Set ...
- Chapter 1: Academic Writing: An Overview
- Chapter 2: Academic Reading
- Chapter 3: Ideas into Text
- Chapter 4: Arguments and Organization
- Chapter 5: Researching Your Topic
- Part Two: Go
- Chapter 6: Introduction: Hooking Your Reader
- Chapter 7: Body Paragraphs: And I Ought to Keep Reading Because?
- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Wait ... Don't Stop
- Part Three: Go Again
- Chapter 9: Taking Another Look
- Chapter 10: Handing It Over
- Appendix I: Genres of Academic Writing
- Appendix II: A Brief Guide to Documentation
- Index
