From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Practical Guide

by Stuart Greene, April Lidinsky

From Inquiry to Academic Writing helps students understand academic culture and its ways of reading, thinking, and writing. With a practical and now widely proven step-by-step approach, this text demystifies cross-curricular thinking and writing. The fourth edition provides extensive coverage of academic habits and reflection, summary, synthesis, and visual analysis. More than 40 readings, one quarter of which are new, bring students into debates that not only bear on their college careers but also reflect larger cultural issues that they will encounter outside the academy. Combine the text with LaunchPad forFrom Inquiry to Academic Writing for even more engaging content and new ways to get the most out of your course. This LaunchPad includesInteractive exercises and tutorials for reading, writing, and research;LearningCurve, adaptive, game-like practice that helps students focus on the topics where they need the most help, such as fallacies, claims, evidence, and other key elements of argument;Text-specific reading comprehension quizzes.Practice sequences to help students apply the strategies of observing, asking questions, and examining alternatives.

Genres: Textbooks, Nonfiction, Reference

525 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 23, 2008

Reviews

[Vee · Rating 2 out of 5]

not useless but i hated nonetheless

[Maggie · Rating 1 out of 5]

There's some useful advice about critical reading and writing in this textbook, but it's presented in a way that my students have consistently complained is overcomplicated, long-winded, and not engaging, and I have to at least partially agree. The chapters usually run longer than they need to, and I don't find the student examples to be realistic models for first-year students where I teach. Overall, this book makes planning lessons more difficult rather than easier. I'd love to use a different textbook, but unfortunately it's a required text for our program, so I'm forced to keep trying to find ways to make it work.

[Mary Chrapliwy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good solid resource for teaching composition to freshmen. This book breaks down academic writing from initial concept and thesis through final drafts.

The book is very short and concise, so instructors will need to supplement with additional reading material. There is a longer edition of this book that contains readings - something to consider.

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

I gave this four stars because it is just much more applicable than any other core composition book I've seen out there. It's a bit more expensive (for students) than I would like, but it is both useful and accessible.