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Effective Strategies for Academic Writing
β Scribed by Joy de Jong
- Publisher
- Uitgeverij Coutinho
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 258
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Preface
Table of contents
Introduction
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I Setting the scene: procedures, process, and product
1 The writing process: dos and donβts
2 Getting started
II Making a plan: the what, why, and how of planning
3 Picturing your research: what are you going to research and why?
4 Picturing your research: how
5 The thesis: table of contents, time schedule, and writing out the plan
III Interlude: between making a plan and writing the text
6 Planning and reading for a short writing assignment (essay or paper)
7 Reading: why, what, and how
8 Getting feedback: how, who, and when
IV Writing the text
9 Preparing and writing the first draft
10 The first revision: content, structure, and external structure
11 The second revision: style and finishing
Final thoughts
References
Index
About the Author
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