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Preface | p. x |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Reading | p. 5 |
Texts and their contexts | p. 5 |
Critical reading | p. 18 |
Reading the critics | p. 22 |
Background reading | p. 23 |
Research | p. 27 |
Looking things up | p. 27 |
Dictionaries | p. 28 |
Biblical references | p. 30 |
Classical references | p. 31 |
Oral literature | p. 32 |
General knowledge | p. 32 |
Trusting the author | p. 34 |
Libraries and librarians | p. 35 |
Searching on-line | p. 36 |
Using Google | p. 37 |
Serendipity | p. 41 |
Essay topics | p. 42 |
Choosing your own topic | p. 42 |
Set topics and exam questions | p. 42 |
The desert island essay | p. 43 |
Structure | p. 44 |
Notes and drafts | p. 44 |
Arguing a case | p. 45 |
Writing | p. 47 |
Style | p. 47 |
Words, plain and lacy | p. 51 |
Jargon and theory-speak | p. 53 |
Slips and solecisms | p. 57 |
Mixing your metaphors | p. 63 |
How to quote | p. 65 |
How not to give offence | p. 67 |
Titles | p. 70 |
Naming your author | p. 71 |
Making yourself clear | p. 72 |
Some common bad advice | p. 75 |
'Tell the examiners what they want to know' | p. 75 |
'Quote sparingly' | p. 75 |
'Never say I' | p. 76 |
'An essay should have a beginning, a middle and an end' | p. 76 |
Spelling, punctuation and grammar | p. 78 |
Spelling | p. 78 |
Dealing with dyslexia | p. 82 |
Punctuation and syntax | p. 84 |
Grammar | p. 105 |
Further reading | p. 113 |
Foreign languages and literature | p. 115 |
Languages without Mr Casaubon | p. 115 |
Real-life language learning | p. 118 |
Vocabulary and grammar | p. 127 |
The translator's craft | p. 136 |
Preparing for translation exams | p. 140 |
Referencing | p. 141 |
Due acknowledgment | p. 141 |
Footnotes and bibliographies | p. 142 |
Presentation | p. 150 |
Studying your academic reader | p. 150 |
All about layout | p. 151 |
Proof-reading | p. 152 |
Safety in cyberspace | p. 153 |
Holding it all together | p. 154 |
Handwriting in closed exams | p. 155 |
Will-power | p. 157 |
Notes | p. 160 |
Bibliography | p. 166 |
Index | p. 168 |
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