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Success in academic writing / Trevor Day.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave study skillsPublication details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Description: xii, 216 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780230369702 (pbk.) :
  • 1137247843
  • 9780230369702
  • 9780230369696
  • 9781137247841
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 808.042 DAY
LOC classification:
  • LB2369 .D3 2013
Contents:
1.The nature and process of academic writing -- 2.Understanding the nature of an assignment -- 3.Kinds of writing -- 4.Researching and assignment -- 5.Being a purposeful reader and note-taker -- 6. Planning and structuring your writing -- 7.Composing -- 8.Words and images -- 9.Citing, referencing and avoiding -- 10.Reviewing and editing your work -- 11.Using technology to help you -- 12.Moving forward.
Summary: This text helps students to develop confidence, technique and clarity of purpose as a writer in their discipline. It takes the reader through the complete writing process from understanding the task through researching, reading and planning, to drafting and composing, reviewing and finalising their copy with many self-study exercises included throughout.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone International Shelves 808.042 DAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 05/11/2018 223674
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone International Shelves 808.042 DAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 223676
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone International Shelves 808.042 DAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 223675

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.The nature and process of academic writing -- 2.Understanding the nature of an assignment -- 3.Kinds of writing -- 4.Researching and assignment -- 5.Being a purposeful reader and note-taker -- 6. Planning and structuring your writing -- 7.Composing -- 8.Words and images -- 9.Citing, referencing and avoiding -- 10.Reviewing and editing your work -- 11.Using technology to help you -- 12.Moving forward.

This text helps students to develop confidence, technique and clarity of purpose as a writer in their discipline. It takes the reader through the complete writing process from understanding the task through researching, reading and planning, to drafting and composing, reviewing and finalising their copy with many self-study exercises included throughout.

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