First Steps in Academic Writing

by Ann Hogue

This work serves as an introduction to basic composition skills through systematic integration of paragraph organization, rhetoric, grammar, sentence structure and the writing process.

Genres: Writing, Language, Education

212 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Shaghayegh]

کاربردی، اصولی و مفید.
این جلد، شامل شش فصل هست که با ریزجزئیات، به عناوین کلی در طول درس می‌پردازه. همچنان فکر می‌کنم در عین سادگی، نکات خوبی رو ارائه میده.
لیست پایین از سرفصل‌ها هست:
1. Describing People
2. Listing-Order Paragraphs
3. Giving Instructions
4. Describing with Space Order
5. Stating Reasons and Using Examples
6. Expressing Your Opinion

[Sebah Al-Ali]

A textbook assigned for teaching writing classes, level 2 (low-intermediate) in my institution. It's not bad. The structure of the book is interesting, and the material provided is suitable for my students. However, it doesn't seem to be strong enough to help student acquire/learn the required information. Not all topics were explained in a clear manner. I needed to consult other textbooks and material to support my classes and provide students with what they needed to learn.

Overall, I think the book is good to help plan the structure of a writing course, but it's not enough to be the only textbook consulted.

[Kay]

Used as the writing text for a low-intermediate writing class at a community college. On the whole, my students didn't find this text as useful as its predecessor (Weaving It Together, Book 2 by Milada Broukal), although the book did have certain strengths, such as making the writing and editing process explicit and providing plenty of good model paragraphs. However, I was not a fan of some of the exercises that involved sentence parsing -- analyzing sentence structure. For example, here are the directions for one exercise to analyze complex sentences:

"Step 1: Underline the independent clauses with a solid line and the dependent clauses with a broken line.

Step 2: Draw a circle around the subordinate.

Step 3: Add a comma if one is needed."

Well, as you might imagine, some confusion ensued, and at times I spent more time explaining how to do the exercise than in getting the point of the exercise across. I found myself either not assigning these exercises or amending the directions to make them less confusing.

[Adolf Bunpo]

ok

[Hisham]

good

[Soplada]

simple and easy and I took a bad mark in the final Exam :)

[Rasha El-Ghitani]

I recommended this book for the beginners,but they have to continue and improve their writing skills.
Good Luck

[Nebrass N farfoor]

This is great book it helped me to improve my writing :) .

[Mustafa EL Gaml]

Contains much information that I got from" fundamentals of academic writing", but more Expanding info. And well built for beginners.

[Daramao]

I want to read this book.