Essential Actions for Academic Writing

A Genre-Based Approach

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Essential Actions for Academic Writing is a writing textbook for all beginning academic students, undergraduate or graduate, to help them understand how to write effectively throughout their academic and professional careers. Essential Actions combines genre research, proven pedagogical practices, and short readings to help students writing in their first, second, or additional languages to develop their rhetorical flexibility by exploring and practicing the key actions that will appear in academic assignments, such as explaining, summarizing, synthesizing, and arguing. Part I:Introduces students to rhetorical situation, genre, register, source use, and a framework for understanding how to approach any new writing task.Demonstrates that all writing responds to a context that includes the writer’s identity, the reader’s expectations, the purpose of the text, and the conventions that shape it.Part II:Explores the essential actions of academic writing (explain, summarize, synthesize, report and interpret data, argue, respond, and analyze).Provides examples of the genres and language that support each action. Part III:Offers four extended projects that combine the essential actions in different genres and contexts.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-03-09
Mått203 x 254 x 25 mm
Vikt734 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor346
FörlagThe University of Michigan Press
ISBN9780472037964

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ContentsScope and Sequence viIntroduction 1Part I: Understanding Texts and Contexts 11Unit 1: The Rhetorical Planning Wheel 13Unit 2: Everyday and Academic Genres and Their Registers 33Part II: Exploring Essential Actions 49Unit 3: Explain 51Unit 4: Summarize 86Unit 5: Synthesize 112Unit 6: Report and Interpret Data 138Unit 7: Argue 168Unit 8: Respond 198Unit 9: Analyze 226Part III: Integrating Actions 249Project 1: Transforming Texts 251Project 2: Problem/Solution Inquiry 273Project 3: Research Paper 290Project 4: Personal Statement 317Grammar Glossary 335Online Source Use Appendix (see Companion Website)

"Overall, we believe Essential Actions for Academic Writing is an excellent textbook for teachers who want options and choice in how they build upon their students’ writing skills. . . The book’s accessibility, content structure, and relevance to college students are particularly strong. Essential Actions in the classroom will likely guide instructors to be more intentional in building students’ understanding of rhetorical decisions, language flexibility, and their agency as writers."