This book is designed to help students with the problems they face in their academic writing. Beginning with the premise that successful writing in the arts and social sciences depends on the mastery of the subject matter and clarity of thought, the book deals with the tasks that confront students before they put pen to paper and also provides a guide to the structuring and use of language. Using concrete examples from a variety of disciplines, the author demonstrates the best approach to different sorts of work.
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Designed to help students with the problems they face in their academic writing, this guide demonstrates the best approaches to reading, taking notes, interpreting and comprehending.
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If we are to write well we need to know (as well as we can) what we are talking about. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Central Europe, Third World, The Tempest, Kemp Smith, Anti-Corn Law League, Ninety-Five Theses, American Revolution, French Revolution, Tamil Nadu, Martin Luther New!
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If we are to write well we need to know (as well as we can) what we are talking about. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
referring nominal, sentence adverbials, linking terms, essay topic, tertiary sources, born devil, poor organisation, academic essay, academic enquiry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Europe, Third World, The Tempest, Kemp Smith, Anti-Corn Law League, Ninety-Five Theses, American Revolution, French Revolution, Tamil Nadu, Martin Luther New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 4 pages
- Sons and Lovers (Signet Classics) by D. H. Lawrence on page 144
- The Anatomy of Revolution by Crane Brinton on page 68
- Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence on page 144
- What Is History? by E H Carr in Front Matter
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