Goals For Academic Writing

Author : Alister H. Cumming
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027219695

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Goals for Academic Writing by Alister H. Cumming Pdf

This book documents the results of a multi-year project that investigated the goals for writing improvement among 45 students and their instructors in intensive courses of English as a Second Language (ESL) then, a year later, in academic programs at two Canadian universities. The researchers present a detailed framework to describe these goals from the perspectives of the students as well as their instructors. The goals are analyzed for groups of students from particular backgrounds internationally, for changes over time, and in relation to the ESL and academic courses. The authors use activity theory, goal theory, various sociolinguistic concepts, and multiple data sources (interviews, observations, stimulated recalls, questionnaires, and text analyses) to provide a contextually-grounded perspective on learning, teaching, writing, second-language development, and curriculum policy. The book will interest researchers, educators, and administrators of ESL, university, college, and literacy programs around the world.

Author : Robert Boice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 091350713X

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Professors as Writers by Robert Boice Pdf

Here is a proven book to help scholars master writing as a productive, enjoyable, and successful experience -- Author, Robert Boice, prepared this self-help manual for professors who want to write more productively, painlessly, and successfully. It reflects the author's two decades of experiences and research with professors as writers -- by compressing a lot of experience into a brief, programmatic framework. Like the actual sessions and workshops in which the author works with writers, this book admonishes and reassures. In the innovative book lies the path for sustained, highly productive scholarly writing!

Author : Paul J. Silvia
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1591477433

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How to Write a Lot by Paul J. Silvia Pdf

All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. In this practical, light-hearted, and encouraging book, Paul Silvia explains that writing productively does not require innate skills or special traits but specific tactics and actions. Drawing examples from his own field of psychology, he shows readers how to overcome motivational roadblocks and become prolific without sacrificing evenings, weekends, and vacations. After describing strategies for writing productively, the author gives detailed advice from the trenches on how to write, submit, revise, and resubmit articles, how to improve writing quality, and how to write and publish academic work.

Author : Anneliese A. Singh,Lauren Lukkarila
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462529407

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Successful Academic Writing by Anneliese A. Singh,Lauren Lukkarila Pdf

"Subject Areas/Keywords: academic writing, behavioral sciences, dissertations, empirical articles, graduate students, graduate writing, journal articles, peer-reviewed articles, publications, research articles, research methods, research reporting, research reports, scholarly writing, social sciences, thesis DESCRIPTION Using rich examples and engaging pedagogical tools, this book equips students to master the challenges of academic writing in graduate school and beyond. The authors delve into nitty-gritty aspects of structure, style, and language, and offer a window onto the thought processes and strategies that strong writers rely on. Essential topics include how to: identify the audience for a particular piece of writing; craft a voice appropriate for a discipline-specific community of practice; compose the sections of a qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research article; select the right peer-reviewed journal for submitting an article; and navigate the publication process. Readers are also guided to build vital self-coaching skills in order to stay motivated and complete projects successfully. "--

Author : Murray, Rowena,Moore, Sarah
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335219339

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The Handbook Of Academic Writing: A Fresh Approach by Murray, Rowena,Moore, Sarah Pdf

Writing is one of the most demanding tasks that academics and researchers face. In some disciplines we learn some of what we need to know to be productive, successful writers; but in other disciplines there is no training, support or mentoring of any kind.

Author : Matthew Johnson
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781071803134

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Flash Feedback [Grades 6-12] by Matthew Johnson Pdf

Beat burnout with time-saving best practices for feedback For ELA teachers, the danger of burnout is all too real. Inundated with seemingly insurmountable piles of papers to read, respond to, and grade, many teachers often find themselves struggling to balance differentiated, individualized feedback with the one resource they are already overextended on—time. Matthew Johnson offers classroom-tested solutions that not only alleviate the feedback-burnout cycle, but also lead to significant growth for students. These time-saving strategies built on best practices for feedback help to improve relationships, ignite motivation, and increase student ownership of learning. Flash Feedback also takes teachers to the next level of strategic feedback by sharing: How to craft effective, efficient, and more memorable feedback Strategies for scaffolding students through the meta-cognitive work necessary for real revision A plan for how to create a culture of feedback, including lessons for how to train students in meaningful peer response Downloadable online tools for teacher and student use Moving beyond the theory of working smarter, not harder, Flash Feedback works deeper by developing practices for teacher efficiency that also boost effectiveness by increasing students’ self-efficacy, improving the clarity of our messages, and ultimately creating a classroom centered around meaningful feedback.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062242075

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A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury Pdf

With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...

Author : Helen Sword
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780674069138

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Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword Pdf

Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read—and to write. Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword’s analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce. Stylish Academic Writing showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.

Author : Trevor Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781350352872

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Success in Academic Writing by Trevor Day Pdf

Writing essays, reports, presentations, papers or dissertations makes up a substantial element of most undergraduate and taught postgraduate degree courses. Anything that makes the process easier and more effective can make a big difference to your success as a student. Taking the reader through the writing process, from understanding the task, through researching, reading and planning, to drafting and composing, reviewing and finalising their copy, the book contains many self-study exercises that will help to develop confidence, technique and clarity of purpose as a writer, whether a first year social science student or a final year scientist or engineer. The book adopts an empowering approach – encouraging the student to find out what they need to know in order to be a successful writer in their discipline. Much more than a set of hints and tips, this book provides an all-encompassing approach to becoming a confident academic writer. New for this edition: - a new section on managing your physical and mental state -advice on a wider range of assignment types, including recorded presentations, such as vlogs, and blogs -introduction to a wider range of strategies that students can employ while composing their work, including material to help students maintain their focus and concentration

Author : Cristy Bartlett,Tyler Cawthray,Linda Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : OCLC:1240159476

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Academic Success by Cristy Bartlett,Tyler Cawthray,Linda Clark Pdf

Author : Wendy Laura Belcher
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412957014

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Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks by Wendy Laura Belcher Pdf

This book provides you with all the tools you need to write an excellent academic article and get it published.

Author : Zohar Livnat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275028

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Dialogue, Science and Academic Writing by Zohar Livnat Pdf

This book investigates the dialogic nature of research articles from the perspective of discourse analysis, based on theories of dialogicity. It proposes a theoretical and applied framework for the understanding and exploration of scientific dialogicity. Focusing on some dialogic components, among them citations, concession, inclusive we and interrogatives, a combined model of scientific dialogicity is proposed, that reflects the place and role of various linguistic structures against the background of various theoretical approaches to dialogicity. Taking this combined model as a basis, the analysis demonstrates how scientific dialogicity is realized in an actual scientific dispute and how a scientific project is constructed step by step by means of a dialogue with its readers and discourse community. A number of different patterns of scientific dialogicity are offered, characterized by the different levels of the polemic held with the research world and other specific researchers – from the “classic”, moderate and polite dialogicity to a direct and personal confrontation between scientists.

Author : Janet Giltrow,Richard Gooding,Daniel Burgoyne,Marlene Sawatsky
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781460404690

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Academic Writing: An Introduction - Third Edition by Janet Giltrow,Richard Gooding,Daniel Burgoyne,Marlene Sawatsky Pdf

Academic Writing has been widely acclaimed in all its editions as a superb textbook—and an important contribution to the pedagogy of introducing students to the conventions of academic writing. The book seeks to introduce student readers to the lively community of research and writing beyond the classroom, with its complex interactions, values, and goals. It presents writing from a range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, cultivating students’ awareness of the subtle differences in genre. This new edition has been revised throughout and contains many new exercises, updated examples, a new section on research proposals, and wider disciplinary coverage. The organization of the book has also been revised to better fit with the timeline of most teaching terms.

Author : Susan Carter,Cally Guerin,Claire Aitchison
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9789811518089

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Doctoral Writing by Susan Carter,Cally Guerin,Claire Aitchison Pdf

This book on doctoral writing offers a refreshingly new approach to help Ph.D. students and their supervisors overcome the host of writing challenges that can make—or break—the dissertation process. The book’s unique contribution to the field of doctoral writing is its style of reflection on ongoing, lived practice; this is more readable than a simple how-to book, making it a welcome resource to support doctoral writing. The experiences and practices of research writing are explored through bite-sized vignettes, stories, and actionable ‘teachable’ accounts.Doctoral Writing: Practices, Processes and Pleasures has its origins in a highly successful academic blog with an international following. Inspired by the popularity of the blog (which had more than 14,800 followers as of October 2019) and a desire to make our six years’ worth of posts more accessible, this book has been authored, reworked, and curated by the three editors of the blog and reconceived as a conveniently structured book.

Author : Tamilla Mammadova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031191602

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Academic Writing and Information Literacy Instruction in Digital Environments by Tamilla Mammadova Pdf

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of academic writing and information literacy in a new digital dimension, drawing on recent trends towards project-based writing, digital writing and multimodal writing in Education, and synthesising theory with practice to provide a handy toolkit for teachers and researchers. The author combines a practical orientation to teaching academic writing and information literacy with a grounding in current theories of writing instruction in the digitalized era, and argue that as digital environments become more universal in modern society - particularly in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic - the lines between traditional academic writing and multi-modal digital writing must necessary become blurred. This book will be of use to teachers and instructors of academic writing and information literacy, particularly within the context of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), as well as students and researchers in Applied Linguistics, Pedagogy and Digital Writing.