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Leki, Ilona ;

Instructor's Manual to Accompany Academic writing : exploring processes and strategies - 2nd Edition. - New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1995. - iv, 27 p. :

Includes index.

Part One: Overview of writing processes --
Getting started --
Part Two: Writing from observation and experience --
Unit One: Getting to draft one --
Getting ideas and starting to write --
Preparing for a draft --
Writing a first draft and getting feedback --
Unit Two: Working with a draft --
Focusing on main ideas --
Developing and shaping ideas --
Beginning and ending ideas --
Unit Three: Reworking the draft --
Revising --
Polishing revised drafts --
Part Three: Applying writing processes for academic purposes: analyzing, evaluating, arguing --
Unit Four: Using published sources --
Summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting sources --
Documenting sources --
Unit Five: Academic writing tasks --
Analyzing issues --
Responding to written arguments --
Arguing from written materials --
Unit Six: Essay exams: some strategies --
Preparing for an essay exam --
Practicing taking essay exams --
Postscript.

This guide is suitable for self-study. It is a clear and carefully sequenced guide to the writing process, focussing on academic writing standards.

ISBN: 0312092156 9780312092153

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English language -- Rhetoric.
Learning and scholarship -- Authorship.
Exposition (Rhetoric)
Academic writing.

Dewey Class. No.: 428.24 / LEK