Academic Acts
Summary, Analysis, Synthesis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 10 March 2020
- ISBN 9780190165673
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 196x126x13 mm
- Weight 268 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 figures; 7 tables 0
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Short description:
The most straightforward and helpful guide to post-secondary writing across the disciplines for students in Canada.
MoreLong description:
Academic Acts provides a streamlined approach to academic writing by exploring three crucial acts - summary, analysis, and synthesis - while covering the basic skills that students need to read, write, and research effectively. Act I describes the conventions of academic and non-academic writing and the stages of writing. Act II provides step-by-step guidelines for writing different types of summaries and includes a chapter on how to write concisely. Act III focuses on critical thinking and rhetorical analysis. Act IV provides guidelines for integrating quotations and paraphrase, MLA and APA documentation style, and includes an annotated student research paper. The five readings at the end of the book illustrate different genres of writing across the disciplines, focusing on topics of interest to today's students.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: On Academic Writing
Act I Foundations of Academic Writing
The Interrelated Skills of Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Purpose and Audience
The Conventions of Academic Writing
Stages of Writing
Research
Essay Writing
A Grammar Primer
Act II Summary
Summarizing: An Everyday Skill
Summary as Overview: The Abstract
The Complete Picture: Extended Summaries
A Broader Focus: Annotated Bibliographies
Summaries, Research, and Your Writing
Less Is More: Strategies for Concrete Writing
Act III Analysis
What Is Critical Thinking?
Engaging with a Text
Rhetorical Analysis of an Argument
Analyzing Weak and Misleading Arguments
Examples of Arguments
Act IV Synthesis
To Quote or Not to Quote: How to Use Your Sources
An Introduction to Citation Styles
Getting Down to It: Outlining and Composing
A Case Study: A Student Research Paper
Readings
"Managing the Modern Infodemic" by Nancy Tomes
"Stop Whitewashing Our National History" by Tayo Bero
"The Case for Semicolons" by Lauren Oyler
"Cybervictimization among Pre-Adolescents in a Community-Based Sample in Canada: Prevalence & Predictors" (Excerpt) by Ahmad Mobin, Cindy Xin Feng, and Cory Neudorf
"The Social Price of Constant Connectivity: Smartphones Impose Subtle Costs on Well-Being" by Kostadin Kushlev, Ryan Dwyer, and Elizabeth W. Dunn
Glossary
Index
