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Academic Acts: Summary, Analysis, Synthesis

Academic Acts: Summary, Analysis, Synthesis


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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.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction: On Academic Writing Act I Foundations of Academic Writing 1: The Interrelated Skills of Thinking, Reading, and Writing 2: Purpose and Audience 3: The Conventions of Academic Writing 4: Stages of Writing 5: Research 6: Essay Writing 7: A Grammar Primer Act II Summary 8: Summarizing: An Everyday Skill 9: Summary as Overview: The Abstract 10: The Complete Picture: Extended Summaries 11: A Broader Focus: Annotated Bibliographies 12: Summaries, Research, and Your Writing 13: Less Is More: Strategies for Concise Writing Act III Analysis 14: What Is Critical Thinking? 15: Engaging with a Text 16: Rhetorical Analysis of an Argument 17: Analyzing Weak and Misleading Arguments 18: Examples of Arguments Act IV Synthesis 19: To Quote or Not to Quote: How to Use Your Sources 20: An Introduction to Citation Styles 21: Getting Down to It: Outlining and Composing 22: 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

About the Author :
Eric Henderson is a lecturer in the Academic and Technical Writing Program at the University of Victoria. Dr. Henderson has taught at the University of Victoria for two decades, teaching courses in composition and rhetoric. He previously taught courses in American Literature at Simon Fraser University. He has published numerous articles and reviews in leading journals and is the author of the OUP Canada titles The Active Reader, 4e (2018); Becoming an Active Reader 3e (2020); The Empowered Writer, 4e (with Kathleen Moran, 2022); and Writing by Choice, 3e (2015) among other works. Sean Henry is a continuing sessional lecturer in the Department of English and the Academic and Technical Writing Program at the University of Victoria, where he has taught since 2009. Dr. Henry was educated at the University of Victoria, Queen's University, and Western University, and specializes in the English Renaissance in addition to first-year literature and composition. He has previously taught at Western University and Camosun College.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780190165673
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Height: 196 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 331 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0190165677
  • Publisher Date: 10 Mar 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Summary, Analysis, Synthesis
  • Width: 126 mm

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