Academic Reading - Softcover

Giltrow, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551110571 ISBN 13: 9781551110578

Publisher: Broadview Press, 1995

Synopsis

This reader has been designed to accompany Giltrowâ??s Academic Writing, one of the key principles of which is that there is a close connection between the processes of reading and of writing academic prose. Each reading is preceded by introductory commentary, questions, and suggestions for discussion, and the book also includes a brief general introduction.As with Giltrowâ??s Academic Writing, her Academic Reading is a challenging text. At its core are examples of actual academic writing of the sort that students must learn to deal with daily, and to write themselves. As newcomers to the scholarly community, students can find that communityâ??s ways of reading and writing mysterious, unpredictable and intimidating. Academic Reading demystifies the scholarly genres, shedding light on their discursive conventions. Throughout, Academic Reading respects the student writer; it engages the reader's interest without ever condescending, and it avoids entirely the arbitrary and the dogmatic.The second edition is expanded to include twenty-one selections, nineteen of which come from scholarly publications, and more than half of which are new to this edition.

About this title

About the Author

Janet Giltrow is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of British Columbia. Her articles have appeared in such journals as American Literature, Sinn und Form, Style, Technostyle, Studies in the Novel, Modern Language Review, and Technical Writing and Communication, and in collections on feminist narratology, genre theory, and ESL, as well as in collections on other topics in rhetoric and literary studies. She is a winner of the 3M Teaching Fellowship.

Review

"...offers accessible examples of real scholarly discourse. Indeed, this is the only ‘across the disciplines’ reader that...accomplishes this effectively." -- Brian Turner, University of Winnipeg Brian Turner, University of Winnipeg Brian Turner, University of Winnipeg

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1551110571
• ISBN 13: 9781551110578
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 444