Key words for academic writers / Rebecca Brittenham, Hildegard Hoeller.
"The forty-four alphabetically organized entries in Key Words for Academic Writers offer students advice on everything from developing a thesis statement to citing sources, and can be assigned in any order to suit the parameters of different writing assignments. Each entry uses examples from sc...
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New York :
Pearson/Longman,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Academic Thinking and the Loss of Common Sense
- Argument: Aunt Anne's Predicament and the Logic of Persuasion
- Assignment: By Definition Not Just a Task
- Assumptions: The World Before the Text
- Audience: The Listener as the Essay's Other
- Brainstorming: How the Other Half Thinks
- Citation: The Rolodex of the Academic World
- Claims: Territorial Defense or Promise of Exploration?
- Conclusions: The Horror of Ending
- Coordination and Subordination: The Rule of the Sentence
- Counterargument: The Necessary Risk of Academic Thinking
- Dash: Disrupting Academic Prose
- Discipline and Its Discontents
- Editing: Who Is Writing What?
- Essay: The Etymology of the College Paper
- Evaluation: How Does One Handle a Rejection or a Bad Grade?
- Evidence: Discovery and Proof
- Footnotes: The Autobiographies of Texts
- Free-Writing: A Rather Forced Liberation
- Grammar: The Magic of a Writer's Craft
- Interpretation: When a Banana Is Not Just a Banana
- Introduction: The Risk of Beginning
- Key Terms: The Main Characters of Essays
- Metaphor: Its Wonders and Dangers
- Paragraphs: The Unfolding Drama
- Parallelism: Grammar and Equality
- Plagiarism: The Politics of Common Good and Private Property
- Punctuation: An Art Within Reason
- Quotation: Show Me How You Quote and I Tell You Who You Are
- Reading as Revelation
- Research: Not on the Trail of the Assassins
- Revision: A Writer's Survival Guide
- Structure: The Stories Essays Tell
- Subject-Verb: Sentence Squeeze-Play
- Summary: The Continuum of Power
- Syllabus: Social Contract, Utopian Vision, or Draft for the Future?
- Synthesis: The Alchemy of Interpretation
- Thesis: Discovery by Design
- Titles: Why They Matter
- Transitions: Miracle Workers or Enforcers?
- Voice: The Sight of Sound
- Workshop: Collaboration and Production
- Writer's Block: Lame Excuse or Real Condition?
- Works Cited: Why This Entry Gets the Last Word.