The Counterintuitive Writer: A Guide to Writing for Students ... and for Others - Couverture souple

Flaherty, Joan

 
9781772441451: The Counterintuitive Writer: A Guide to Writing for Students ... and for Others

Synopsis

The Counterintuitive Writer takes a new perspective on academic writing, encouraging readers to follow the road "less travelled" as they figure out what they want to write and how to write it.

Using easy-to-understand examples, practical exercises, and innovative approaches that apply to various types of writing, this text guides the reader on how to:

- Overcome writer's block
- Develop a focused topic
- Organize essays, reports and research papers
- Apply the principle of "predictable structure and unpredictable content" to capture - and hold - readers' attention
- Craft a compelling introduction and conclusion
- Write concise, coherent paragraphs
- Summarize key points; and
- Avoid common writing pitfalls, including logical fallacies, unintentional plagiarism, and grammatical errors.

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9781772441444: The Counterintuitive Writer: A Writing Guide for Students ... and for Others

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ISBN 10 :  1772441449 ISBN 13 :  9781772441444
Editeur : Rock's Mills Press, 2018
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