Advance in Academic Writing 2 - Student Book with eText & My eLab (12 months) / Edition 1

by Steve Marshall

Overview

Advance in Academic Writing is a comprehensive coursebook that prepares students for success in their college and university studies. In each chapter, students read authentic academic texts and develop key analytic skills around the texts. Advance explains in detail a range of different academic writing processes that will help students succeed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782761341509
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	03/31/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	9998
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 WRITING AND RESEARCH: GETTING STARTED

• Chapter 1 Seven Stages of the Writing Process
• Chapter 2 Understanding Research
• Chapter 3 Bringing in Others’ Ideas: Reading
• Chapter 4 Bringing in Others’ Ideas: Writing

Part 2 ESSAY SECTIONS: PARAGRAPHS, INTRODUCTIONS, AND CONCLUSIONS

• Chapter 5 Presenting Coherent Arguments
• Chapter 6 Paragraphs
• Chapter 7 Introductions in Academic Writing
• Chapter 8 Conclusions in Academic Writing
• Chapter 9 Review and Consolidation

Part 3 WRITING FOR DIFFERENT ACADEMIC PURPOSES

• Chapter 10 Describing Processes and Statistical Data
• Chapter 11 Writing Arguments in Essays
• Chapter 12 Making Comparisons
• Chapter 13 Writing about Problems and Solutions
• Chapter 14 Writing about Causes and Effects
• Chapter 15 Review and Consolidation

Part 4 HANDBOOK: WRITING EFFECTIVE SENTENCES

• Unit 1 Tense and Aspect
• Unit 2 Articles, Nouns, and Noun Phrases
• Unit 3 Clauses and Sentences
• Unit 4 Relative Clauses
• Unit 5 Punctuation: Commas and Semicolons
• Unit 6 Participle Phrases
• Unit 7 The Passive Voice
• Unit 8 Punctuation: Colons and Apostrophes
• Unit 9 Sentence Fragments, Comma Splices, and Run-On Sentences
• Unit 10 Subject-Verb Agreement
• Unit 11 Conditional Sentences
• Unit 12 Parallel Structure
• Unit 13 Modal Auxiliary Verbs
• Unit 14 Inversion for Emphasis

APPENDICES

• Appendix 1 Linking Words in Academic Writing
• Appendix 2 APA Citation Style
• Appendix 3 MLA Citation Style
• Appendix 4 35 Mistakes to Avoid in Academic Writing