
The Quick Fix Guide to Academic Writing
How to Avoid Big Mistakes and Small Errors
- 152 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Quick Fix Guide to Academic Writing
How to Avoid Big Mistakes and Small Errors
About this book
Whether you're writing a paper, essay, assignment, or dissertation, this short and punchy book helps you improve your writing skills through minimal effort.
Providing you with a quick set of writing rules to follow, this tried and tested guide uses a unique and easy to follow grid-based system. Packed with advice on understanding (big and little) common errors made in academic writing, it helps you identify patterns in your own writing and demonstrates how to reshape or re-evaluate them - and raise your writing game in any academic context.
How-to tutorials include:
- Synthesizing and critiquing literature – and using your coding sheet to develop critical arguments
- Shaping abstracts, introductions, discussions, and conclusions – to improve the logic and structure of your writing
- Applying lessons-learned to future projects, whatever format of academic writing.
Save time and improve your grades, with this essential quick fix guide!
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Summation
- Introduction
- 1 Understanding the “Big” and “Little” Errors in Your Paper
- 2 What am I Supposed to Do in My Paper?
- 3 How to Synthesize the Literature
- 4 How to Develop a Critique of Previous Literature
- 5 How to Produce a Finding and a Claim
- 6 How to Write an Abstract, Introduction, Discussion, and Conclusion
- 7 Conclusion: A Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Model of Social Science Writing
- References
- Index