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Refining your academic writing : strategies for reading, revising and rewriting / Pat Thomson

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, c2023Description: 227 pages ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 9780367468767
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB 2369 .T46 2023
Contents:
Introduction -- Why 'Refining'? -- Refine With Attitude -- Start at the Beginning -- See Your Whole Text -- Strengthen Your Argument -- Make Your Text Trustworthy -- Write With Authority -- Stating Your Case -- Quote and Cite Wisely -- Find Your Flow -- Tackle Turgid Prose -- Check Your Idiosyncrasies -- Delight Your Reader -- Afterword: Tests and Checklists.
Summary: This book will help you complete your writing project and provides a reading, revising, and rewriting repertoire that you can adapt and add to. It offers ways to think about revision and a basic tool kit which will help you to identify what needs your attention and why. This accessible book draws on and extends some of the most heavily used posts on Thomson's popular academic writing blog Patter, as well as tried and tested writing workshops. Written with a light touch, this is ideal reading for doctoral and early career researchers, this book provides strategies needed to support the writing revision process.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Graduate Studies General Circulation Master of Science in Psychology GC LB 2369 .T46 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000019058

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Why 'Refining'? -- Refine With Attitude -- Start at the Beginning -- See Your Whole Text -- Strengthen Your Argument -- Make Your Text Trustworthy -- Write With Authority -- Stating Your Case -- Quote and Cite Wisely -- Find Your Flow -- Tackle Turgid Prose -- Check Your Idiosyncrasies -- Delight Your Reader -- Afterword: Tests and Checklists.

This book will help you complete your writing project and provides a reading, revising, and rewriting repertoire that you can adapt and add to. It offers ways to think about revision and a basic tool kit which will help you to identify what needs your attention and why. This accessible book draws on and extends some of the most heavily used posts on Thomson's popular academic writing blog Patter, as well as tried and tested writing workshops. Written with a light touch, this is ideal reading for doctoral and early career researchers, this book provides strategies needed to support the writing revision process.

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