Guidelines, Third edition, is an advanced reading and writing text designed specifically to strengthen students' academic writing. Guidelines is a classic reading/writing text that teaches academic essay and research writing. The book contains stimulating cross-cultural readings that provide source materials for critical thinking and writing. The book concludes with a hundred-page handbook that contains information on how to document sources and how to draft, review, revise, and edit.
Guidelines, Third edition, is an advanced reading and writing text designed specifically to strengthen students' academic writing.
Part I. Reading: 1. Reading strategies; 2. Keeping a reading/writing journal; Part II. Readings and Writing Assignments: 3. Readings; 4. Discussion activities; 5. Guidelines for writing from experience; 6. Readings: field research; 7. Discussion activities: field research; 8. Guidelines for writing from field research; 9. Readings: essays; 10. Discussion activities: essays; 11. Guidelines for writing about essays; 12. Readings: fiction; 13. Discussion activities: fiction; 14. Guidelines for writing about fiction; 15: Readings: poetry; 16. Discussion activities: poetry; 17. Guidelines for compiling a poetry anthology; 18. Guidelines for exploring a research topic; 19. Guidelines for conducting library research; 20. Guidelines for composing a research eEssay; 21. Summarizing; 22. Paraphrasing; 23. Quoting; 24. Citing and documenting sources; Part III. The Editing Process: 25. Proofreading and editing; 26. Causes of error; 27. A handbook for correcting errors; 28. Manuscript form for final copy.