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Making Your Case: A Practical Guide to Essay Writing
This practical book demystifies the processes of academic writing through careful explanation and a series of engaging and practical examples.
The techniques and strategies offered apply to all forms of writing which require a degree of argument and analysis. Places emphasis on drafting, redrafting, adaptation and correction as essential processes in the transformation and communication of ideas. Outlines the skills central to academic essay writing including moving beyond knowledge to understanding; discriminating between one idea and another; and building up ideas to make a case. Introduces the history and variety of the essay as a genre as well as the range of styles and voices employed by contemporary critics and students. Provides a guide to the three different systems of referencing currently used in academic writing.
The techniques and strategies offered apply to all forms of writing which require a degree of argument and analysis. Places emphasis on drafting, redrafting, adaptation and correction as essential processes in the transformation and communication of ideas. Outlines the skills central to academic essay writing including moving beyond knowledge to understanding; discriminating between one idea and another; and building up ideas to make a case. Introduces the history and variety of the essay as a genre as well as the range of styles and voices employed by contemporary critics and students. Provides a guide to the three different systems of referencing currently used in academic writing.
- GenresNonfiction
168 pages, Paperback
First published December 11, 2000
About the author
Rebecca Stott
24 books256 followersRebecca Stott was born in Cambridge in 1964 and raised in Brighton in a large Plymouth Brethren community. She studied English and Art History at York University and then completed an MA and PhD whilst raising her son, Jacob, born in 1984.
She is the author of several academic books on Victorian literature and culture, two books of non-fiction, including a partial biography of Charles Darwin, and a cultural history of the oyster. She is now a Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has three children, Jacob, Hannah and Kezia and has lived in Cambridge since 1993. She has made several radio programmes for Radio Four.
Her first novel, Ghostwalk, is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in the UK, is the launch novel of the new fiction list of Spiegel and Grau in the US (a new division of Random House) and is being translated into 12 different languages including Russian and Chinese.
She is writing her next novel, The Coral Thief.
She is the author of several academic books on Victorian literature and culture, two books of non-fiction, including a partial biography of Charles Darwin, and a cultural history of the oyster. She is now a Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has three children, Jacob, Hannah and Kezia and has lived in Cambridge since 1993. She has made several radio programmes for Radio Four.
Her first novel, Ghostwalk, is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in the UK, is the launch novel of the new fiction list of Spiegel and Grau in the US (a new division of Random House) and is being translated into 12 different languages including Russian and Chinese.
She is writing her next novel, The Coral Thief.
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