Effective College Writing is speciafiaclly written for pre-tertiary or tertiary students in Asian countries where the medium of instruction is English. The book aims to help students cope with writing in an academic setting usin the process-genre approach. Students will learn how to plan, organize, research, and produce different genres of academic writing through a variety of challenging activities and tasks. Reflection exercise, and self evaluation and peer review checklist are also included to help students be more autonomous in their learning. Each chapter of the book includes -- objectives, explaining what students will learn; -- introduction to a genre, outlining its rhetorical structure and specialized features; -- useful expressions, structures, and transitional markers peculiar to the genre; -- text analysis, showing students how to identify thesis statement, topic sentences, and supporting ideas, with examples of students' writing -- reflection, asking students to think about what they have learned; and -- writing tasks, emphasizing the process approach to genre writing.
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KC Lee, Happy Goh, Janet Chan and Yang Ying all teach at the Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore
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