Introduction to Academic Writing

• Main Author: Cavusgi, Sharon L. (Author)
• Other Authors: Byrd, Patricia (Series editors), Reid, Joy M. (Series editors)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Pacific Grove [Calif.] Heinle & Heinle 1998
• Series: Looking ahead (Pacific Grove, Calif.) 1
• Subjects: English language > Problems, exercises, etc > Rhetoric; English language > Grammar > Problems, exercises, etc; English language > Textbooks for foreign speakers; Academic writing > Problems, exercises, etc.
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xxiii, 287 pages illustrations 23 cm
• ISBN: 0838478840

It focuses on the various types of writing that successful students must learn to employ: collecting, comparing, defining, developing, classifying, and others. In practicing these various forms of academic writing, students call upon a host of rhetorical modes, such as definition and classification, to support their ideas and opinions