How to use your reading in your essays / Jeanne Godfrey.
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- 808/.04207112 23
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Previous edition: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Appendices (1: Answers to practice exercises ; 2: Definitions of terms used in How to use your reading in your essays ; 3: Complete student essay on business ethics ; 4: Reference styles ; 5: Abbreviations and labels used in dictionary entries ; 6: A brief explanation of word class).
Introduction: An example and overview of how reading is used in an essay -- Part A: Using your reading (Introduction: Key points for reading at university ; 1. How do you decide what to read? ; 2. How do you understand and question what you read? ; 3. What should you write down? ; 4. Why and how should you quote? ; 5. Why and how should you paraphrase? ; 6. Why and how should you summarise? ; 7. Putting it all together in your essay) -- Part B: Useful vocabulary (Introduction: Key points for developing your vocabulary ; 1. Introducing sources and using verbs precisely ; 2. Describing the views of different authors ; 3. Comparing the views of different authors and showing how they cite and evaluate each other ; 4. Commenting positively on a source ; 5. Commenting negatively on a source ; 6. Techniques for re-expressing sources ; 7. Vocabulary and writing style) -- Part C: Checking and correcting your work (Introduction: Key points for checking your work ; 1. Common mistakes with in-essay references ; 2. Ten grammatical areas that cause problems ; 3. Correcting other common types of error).
Featuring real texts and examples of student writing, this practical book guides the undergraduate student through the process of effectively using reading in their essays. It covers selecting what to read, paraphrase and summarize sources, spotting and correcting mistakes in the final essay, and more.