Guidelines: A Cross-Cultural Reading/Writing Text / Edition 3

by Ruth Spack

Overview

Guidelines Third edition is an advanced reading and writing text designed specifically to strengthen students' academic writing. Guidelines is a classic reading/writing text that teaches academic essay and research writing. The book contains stimulating cross-cultural readings that provide source materials for critical thinking and writing. The book concludes with a hundred-page handbook that contains information on how to document sources and how to draft, review, revise, and edit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521613019
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/30/2006
Series:	Cambridge Academic Writing Collection
Edition description:	Third
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	659,040
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.96(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Reading:
1. Reading strategies;
2. Keeping a reading/writing journal; Part II. Readings and Writing Assignments:
3. Readings;
4. Discussion activities;
5. Guidelines for writing from experience;
6. Readings: field research;
7. Discussion activities: field research;
8. Guidelines for writing from field research;
9. Readings: essays;
10. Discussion activities: essays;
11. Guidelines for writing about essays;
12. Readings: fiction;
13. Discussion activities: fiction;
14. Guidelines for writing about fiction; 15: Readings: poetry;
16. Discussion activities: poetry;
17. Guidelines for compiling a poetry anthology;
18. Guidelines for exploring a research topic;
19. Guidelines for conducting library research;
20. Guidelines for composing a research eEssay;
21. Summarizing;
22. Paraphrasing;
23. Quoting;
24. Citing and documenting sources; Part III. The Editing Process:
25. Proofreading and editing;
26. Causes of error;
27. A handbook for correcting errors;
28. Manuscript form for final copy.