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Guidelines: A Cross-Cultural Reading/Writing Text (Cambridge Academic Writing Collection) - Softcover

Spack, Ruth

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Synopsis

A cross-cultural reading/writing text. The readings in the Student's Book offer a wide range of choices in terms of subject, genre, culture, gender, point of view, length, style, and theme, and yet lend themselves well to comparison, both within and across genres. These selections represent a number of diverse fields, including fiction and poetry, anthropology, education, biology, psychology, and business. The text also offers a variety of writing assignments, including a field research project. It includes guidelines for summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, documenting sources, and editing.

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Book Description

The readings in the Student's Book offer a wide range of choices in terms of subject, genre, culture, gender, point of view, length, style, and theme, and yet lend themselves well to comparison, both within and across genres. These selections represent a number of diverse fields, including fiction and poetry, anthropology, education, biology, psychology, and business. The text also offers a variety of writing assignments, including a field research project. It includes guidelines for summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, documenting sources, and editing.

From the Back Cover

"Ruth Spack is a pioneer in the field of second language writing. Her scholarly works and practical student texts have made a significant contribution in this area. This third edition of her groundbreaking book, Guidelines, represents a major revision, with new readings, new organization, and updated information."

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