The active reader: strategies for academic reading and writing. / (Record no. 7321)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780199012459 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PE1408.H38 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Henderson, Eric |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The active reader: strategies for academic reading and writing. / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Eric Henderson |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 3rd ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvii, 418 p.: |
| Other physical details | ill.; |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes index and references. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents: 1. An introduction to academic prose: What is academic writing? -- General features of academic writing --he purposes of academic writing -- The influence of the academic community -- 2. Conventions of academic writing: Authors -- Length -- Research -- Voice and style -- Strategies for approaching academic essays -- 3. There common kinds of academic essays: Qualitative -- Quantitative -- Synthesis and critical evaluation -- Tables, graphs and other visuals -- Academic essay formats -- 4. Critical thinking: When do you use critical thinking? -- Inferences and critical thinking -- Critical thinking and skepticism -- Drawing conclusions -- 5. Reading strategies: Interacting with texts -- Reading strategies -- 6. An overview of the essay: he stages of writing -- The structure of the essay -- 7. Writing summaries: times and places for summaries -- The stand-alone summary -- 8. Using critical thinking to analyze essays: The rhetorical analysis: explaining the how and the why -- 9 Writing argumentative essays: Argumentative purpose -- Claims in argument --Connecting claim to evidence -- Kinds of evidence in argumentative essays -- Two kinds of reasoning -- Using reason in arguments -- Failures in reasoning -- Giving life to logic -- Refutation strategies -- 10. Writing research papers -- The reader: University issues -- Canada in the world -- Voices within Canada -- Media and image -- Aggression and society -- Intersections with science -- Appendix A: A note on statistics -- Appendix B: Characteristics of type A, type B, and type C essays |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | English language |
| Form subdivision | Rhetoric -- Textbooks |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Academic writing |
| Form subdivision | Textbooks |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Reading comprehension |
| Form subdivision | Textbooks |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | College readers |
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| WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA KUMASI LIBRARY | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA KUMASI LIBRARY | General Stacks | 22/11/2019 | PE1408.H38(3e) | K/2786/2786/19 | 03/06/2020 | 03/06/2020 | Books |