Writing for the Academic Disciplines: A Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook - Softcover

Sally Hayward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199002371 ISBN 13: 9780199002375

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Combining a rhetoric, a reader, and a handbook, this three-in-one volume explores the conventions and forms of academic writing common throughout the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences. By progressing through the engaging lessons, readings, and exercises, students will build the skills they need to write with confidence in their chosen discipline.

About this title

About the Author

Sally Hayward received her PhD in 2006 from the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She has served as an instructor in the Academic Writing Program at the University of Lethbridge. Sally's research interests focus on composition, genre theory, and the rhetorical and narrative construction of disability. She has written a grammar chapter for Brundage/Lahey's Acting on Words: An Integrated Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook, 3e (PEC 2012) and a number of articles that focus on the representation of disability in literature, law, media, and medicine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199002371
• ISBN 13: 9780199002375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544