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Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students with MLA 2016 Update

Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students with MLA 2016 Update

by David Starkey (Author)

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    Paperback 2017

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Synopsis

Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students is a rhetoric designed to cover the basics of a college writing course in a concise, student-friendly format. Anything inessential to the business of college writing has been excluded. Each chapter concentrates on a crucial element of composing an academic essay and is capable of being read in a single sitting. The book is loaded with timesaver tips, ideas for making the most of the student's time, along with occasional warnings to avoid common errors made by student writers. Each short chapter concludes with questions and suggestions designed to trigger class discussion.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
Published: 30 May 2017
ISBN 10: 1554813808
ISBN 13: 9781554813803

Media Reviews
David Starkey delivers clear, ordered advice in a voice so familiar and colloquial that anyone's anxiety about this often rigid, academic subject will start to calm. He moves seamlessly between examples ranging from everyday experience to the highest levels of great writing, and what I like best is that underneath it all he encourages students to keep creativity and poetic insight alive even as they tackle the challenge of writing rigorous, scholarly papers. - Richard Guzman, North Central College David Starkey's Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students is a great resource for first-year writing students and faculty who want to move swiftly through essential concepts in order to get down to the brass tacks of the academic essay. Starkey not only invites student readers through conversation, efficiency, and practical wisdom, but also targets key areas that writing instructors repeatedly discuss in hopes that students will internalize writing as a process and begin to reflect upon their writing in a metacognitive way. - Calley Hornbuckle, Columbia College
Author Bio
David Starkey is Director of Composition at Santa Barbara City College. He is the author of Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008) and Poetry Writing: Theme and Variations (McGraw-Hill, 1999), as well as a number of books of poetry.