Mature Student's Guide to Writing

JEAN ROSE specialises in teaching mature students. She is an associate lecturer with The Open University, UK, and a freelance writer. She also contributes occasional columns on writing skills to various magazines. At Exeter University, she wrote her PhD thesis on the poet Geoffrey Hill and won the university's poetry prize.

• AcknowledgementsWho is This Book For?How to Use This BookIf You Think You May Be Dyslexic...PART I: THE BIG PICTURETaking NotesWriting an EssayQuoting and ReferencingPART II: WRITING FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSESStyleSummariesLetters and EmailsCreative WritingReportsArticlesOral PresentationsExam EssaysThe Proposal For Your Undergraduate DissertationPART III: THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF GOOD WRITINGVerbs and Other Parts of SpeechWriting Clear SentencesPunctuationGetting Conversation on PaperPART IV: MOVING ONYour CVLetters and Statements for Job ApplicationsAppendix 1: Spelling StrategiesAppendix 2: Common ConfusionsAnswersBibliographyIndex.

Reviews for the second edition: 'I thoroughly enjoyed the author's style of writing. She combines a firm and clear sense of how things should be done with some light touches of humour. The tone is approachable and supportive and I feel that this is one of the best selling points for the book. The combination of occasional short, decisive sentences adds to the tone of authority within the work.' - Lucinda Becker, University of Reading, UK 'Having taught mature - return-to-study - students and participated in research into mature students' experiences of nurse education, I realize only too well their insecurities over writing coursework assignments. This book is aimed at all such students... a very useful study guide...' - Christine Webb, Journal of Advanced Nursing