Learning About Academic Writing

• Main Author: Fellag, Linda Robinson (Author)
• Other Authors: Byrd, Patrick (Series editor), Reid, Joy M. (Series editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Pacific Grove, [Calif.] Heinle & Heinle 1998
• Series: Looking Ahead 2
• Subjects: English language > Problems, exercises, etc. > Problems, exercises, etc > Rhetoric; English language > Textbooks for foreign speakers > Problems, exercises, etc > Grammar; English language > Textbooks for foreign speakers > Grammar > Problems, exercises, etc; Academic writing > Problems, exercises, etc. > Rhetoric > Problems, exercises, etc
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xxi, 258 pages illustrations 23 cm
• ISBN: 0838479111

Looking Ahead 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. They also develop facility to using a variety of academic writing formats, such as paragraphs, memos, and surveys