The student's writing guide for the arts and social sciences /
[Book]
Gordon Taylor.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1989.
xiv, 250 pages ;
21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xiv) and index.
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Sources of extracts used in the text -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Reflection and Research: 2. Reflection: asking questions and proposing answers -- 3. Interpretation: reading and taking notes -- Part II. The Dynamics of an Essay: 4. Openings -- 5. Middles -- 6. Endings -- Part III. Language: 7. You, your language and your material -- 8. Analytical language I: sentences -- 9. Analytical language 2: rhetorical strategies -- 10. Cohesion and texture -- 11. Conventions of academic writing -- Appendices -- Index.
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This is designed to help students with their academic writing. Using examples from various disciplines, the author discusses such tasks as reading, taking notes, interpreting and analyzing and shows how to develop an academic essay and make effective use of language.
Arts-- Authorship, Style manuals.
English language-- Rhetoric, Handbooks, manuals, etc.