Essential Actions for Academic Writing (Paperback)

Nigel A. Caplan

ISBN 10: 047203796X / ISBN 13: 9780472037964

Published by The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2022

About this Item

Paperback. Essential Actions for Academic Writing is a writing textbook for all beginning academic students, undergraduate or graduate, to help them understand how to write effectively throughout their academic and professional careers. Essential Actions combines genre research, proven pedagogical practices, and short readings to help students writing in their first, second, or additional languages to develop their rhetorical flexibility by exploring and practicing the key actions that will appear in academic assignments, such as explaining, summarizing, synthesizing, and arguing. Part I:Introduces students to rhetorical situation, genre, register, source use, and a framework for understanding how to approach any new writing task.Demonstrates that all writing responds to a context that includes the writers identity, the readers expectations, the purpose of the text, and the conventions that shape it.Part II:Explores the essential actions of academic writing (explain, summarize, synthesize, report and interpret data, argue, respond, and analyze).Provides examples of the genres and language that support each action. Part III:Offers four extended projects that combine the essential actions in different genres and contexts. Essential Actions for Academic Writing is a writing textbook for all beginning academic students, undergraduate or graduate, to help them understand how to write effectively throughout their academic and professional careers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Essential Actions for Academic Writing (Paperback)
• Publisher: The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047203796X
• ISBN 13: 9780472037964
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Essential Actions for Academic Writing is a writing textbook for all beginning academic students, undergraduate or graduate, to help them understand how to write effectively throughout their academic and professional careers. Essential Actions combines genre research, proven pedagogical practices, and short readings to help students writing in their first, second, or additional languages to develop their rhetorical flexibility by exploring and practicing the key actions that will appear in academic assignments, such as explaining, summarizing, synthesizing, and arguing. 

Part I:

• Introduces students to rhetorical situation, genre, register, source use, and a framework for understanding how to approach any new writing task.
• Demonstrates that all writing responds to a context that includes the writer’s identity, the reader’s expectations, the purpose of the text, and the conventions that shape it.

Part II:

• Explores the essential actions of academic writing (explain, summarize, synthesize, report and interpret data, argue, respond, and analyze).
• Provides examples of the genres and language that support each action. 

Part III:

• Offers four extended projects that combine the essential actions in different genres and contexts. 

About the Author

Nigel A. Caplan is an Associate Professor of English as Second Language (ESL) at the University of Delaware English Language Institute. 
Ann M. Johns is Professor Emerita of Rhetoric and Writing Studies and Linguistics at San Diego State University.