The Academic Writer: A Brief Guide

by Ede

• ISBN13: 9780312451929
• ISBN10: 031245192X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-27
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Much has changed since the first edition of Lisa Ede'sWork in Progress; students need more rigorous help working with sources, creating effective arguments, and addressing the greater demands of academic writing in a digital age. Refocused on the kinds of academic writing students do now,The Academic Writeris a radical revision ofWork in Progress. Written in Lisa Ede's accessible, supportive style,The Academic Writergives students easy-to-use guidelines to make effective choices at each stage of the writing process.

Author Biography

LISA EDE is professor of English and director of the Center for Writing and Learning at Oregon State University, where she has taught since 1980. She has published a number of books and articles collaboratively with Andrea A. Lunsford, including Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing and ÒAudience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy,Ó which won the CCCC’s Braddock Award in 1985. Ede is also a recipient of the prestigious Shaughnessy Award. Among her other publications are Situating Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location, and Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse (with Andrea A. Lunsford and Robert J. Connors). In addition, for Bedford/St. Martin’s, Ede is the editor of On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays, 1975-1998 and editor, with Andrea Lunsford, of Selected Essays of Robert J. Connors.

Table of Contents

PART I. WRITING MATTERS: WRITING AND RHETORIC IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

1. Writing as Design

2. Understanding the Writing Process

3. Analyzing Rhetorical Situations

 

PART II. WRITING IN COLLEGE

4. Analyzing Texts and Contexts

5. Making and Supporting Claims

6. Doing Research: Joining the Scholarly Conversation

7. Writing in the Disciplines: Making Choices as You Write

PART III. PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR READING AND WRITING

8. Strategies for Reading



9. Strategies for Invention

10. Strategies for Planning and Drafting

11. Strategies for Designing Pages and Screens

12. Strategies for Revision



Writers' References: MLA and APA Documentation