Book Description

This brief, flexible guide features dictionary-style entries on the key terms and concepts associated with academic and research-based writing, including models and exercises in each entry. Offering instructors enormous flexibility, the alphabetically-organized entries in this text can be introduced in any order to present discussions of writing college papers--from developing a thesis statement to citing sources. Each entry uses examples from scholarly writing to explain a particular aspect of the writing or research process--analysis, argument, summary, synthesis--and provides concrete, manageable techniques and exercises to help students make their writing work. Entries from different disciplines show the development of specialized knowledge and specific rhetorical practices. A guide to academic culture as well as a writing guide, the text helps students develop skills such as how to interpret a syllabus or analyze an assignment.