The active reader: strategies for academic reading and writing. / Eric Henderson
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015Edition: 3rd edDescription: xvii, 418 p.: illISBN: 9780199012459Subject(s): English language -- Rhetoric -- Textbooks | Academic writing -- Textbooks | Reading comprehension -- Textbooks | College readersLOC classification: PE1408.H38Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA KUMASI LIBRARY General Stacks | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA KUMASI LIBRARY | PE1408.H38(3e) (Browse shelf) | Available | K/2786/2786/19 |
Includes index and references.
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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