Academic Writing: Exploring Processes and Strategies

By Ilona Leki

Book Overview

While taking students through the writing process, this book also teaches attention to form, format, and accuracy. Academic Writing is an advanced, process-oriented writing text. The central goals are to teach the process that writers go through to produce texts and to provide instruction on how to meet the demands of the academy through attention to form and accuracy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521657687
• ISBN13: 9780521657686
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

written for someone else, not me

There is a serious need for research and thought on ways to teach creative writing to foreign students from countries where creative writing is not encouraged. As an overseas English teacher, I am able to persuade my students to answer multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions, but I draw a blank whenever I ask a question which calls for the least bit of creativity. Most of the material in the book seemed like truisms to me: topic sentences, organization of material, citing references, and avoiding logical fallacies. However, this may all be new to a student from a culture which does not encourage creative writing. Such a student is sure to relate to this book, because there is a second person pronoun on almost every line. The appendix includes articles which the author suggests as topics for discussion. They don't pertain directly to the topic at hand, but they are interesting. Read them anyway.