Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136133908 ISBN 13: 9780136133902

Publisher: Pearson Education, 2009

Book by Butler, Linda

From the Back Cover:

Fundamentals of Academic Writing, by Linda Butler, is the newest addition to the Longman Academic Writing Series. Fundamentals provides beginning-level students with the essential tools they need to master basic academic writing by integrating sentence structure, paragraph organization, grammar, mechanics, vocabulary, and the writing process. Fundamentals leads students to build strong academic writing skills that will last them throughout their academic careeers.

 

Features:

• A step-by-step approach guides students seamlessly through the writing process.
• Clear, succinct explanations help students to understand and apply key conepts and rules.
• Numerous models and varied practice support students at all stages of writing.
• Journal writing helps students build literacy.
• Challenge activities give added opportunities to master the writing process.
• Reviewer's Checklists motivate students to revise their work.

The Longman Academic Writing Series also consists of:

• Level 2 First Steps in Academic Writing, Second Edition
• Level 3 Introduction to Academic Writing, Third Edition
• Level 4 Writing Academic English, Fourth Edition

About the Author:

Linda Butler is an internationally known, prize-winning fine-arts photographer. Her work has been collected by numerous museums, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her photographs have also been widely exhibited, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Yokohama Museum of Art, and the Fondazione Querine-Stampalia in Venice." "Simon Winchester is a British author of books which examine events that have changed human history. His book on the Yangtze, "River at the Center of the World," was widely praised.

Christopher Butler (Twitter: chrbutler) is vice president of Newfangled (www.newfangled.com), a web development firm on the cutting edge of modern digital marketing and technology. He's written extensively on the the current and future state of the web for Newfangled's own monthly newsletter and blog, as well as "Print Magazine"'s Imprint blog and "Smashing Magazine".