Title
About Writing: A Guide
Files
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Contributors
Robin Jeffrey - Author
Copyright Year
2016
Description
This writer's reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student should need to successfully compose college-level work. The book covers the basics of composition and revising/ including how to build a strong thesis/ how to peer review a fellow student's work/ and a handy checklist for revision/ before moving on to a broad overview of academic writing. Included for those students who need writing help at the most basic level are comprehensive sections on sentence style and grammar/ verbs/ nouns and other tenets of basic grammar. Finally/ the sections on research and citation should help any student find solid evidence for their school work and cite it correctly/ as well as encouraging an understanding of why citation is so important in the first place. This is a guide that is useful to writing students of all levels/ either as a direct teaching tool or a simple reference.
Subject 1
Humanities - Literature/ Rhetoric/ and Poetry
Subject 2
Student Success
Publisher
Open Oregon Educational Resources
Resources
Open Textbook Library
License
Attribution
Recommended Citation
"About Writing: A Guide" (2021). Open Textbooks. 303.
https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/303
