Academic Writing: Concepts and Connections

By Teresa Thonney

Book Overview

Features

* An emphasis on core academic skills: Academic Writing introduces core concepts used across a variety of disciplines in order to help students recognize patterns that appear in all academic reading and writing situations.
* Connections across contexts: From traditional science reports written for fellow scholars to blogs written for general audiences, this interdisciplinary text contains a wide range of readings, allowing students to examine how context influences academic writing.
* "Concept in Practice" and "Applying the Concepts" features: These features encourage students to apply the critical reading, research, and writing strategies that they learn in composition courses to what they read and write in all of their courses.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199338345
• ISBN13: 9780199338344
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"