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This brief guide teaches how to write the most common papers assigned in college courses: source-based essays that summarize, analyze, critique, and synthesize.
Comprehensive enough to serve as a primary text yet compact enough to serve as a supplement, this clear and concise writing guide teaches you how to critically read, clearly summarize, carefully respond to, precisely critique, creatively synthesize, and accurately quote or paraphrase texts. A Brief Guide is a valuable teaching and reference tool that many disciplines find useful for class work and for independent study.
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A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings teaches readers to write the most common college-level papers: source-based essays that summarize, analyze, critique, and synthesize.
This guide teaches how to read critically, quote and paraphrase material, summarize, respond to, critique, and synthesize readings, avoid plagiarism, document essays, and keep a writing journal. A Brief Guide is a valuable teaching and reference tool that students of many disciplines will find useful for both class work and for independent use.
For anyone who needs to write at the college level.
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