A Guide to Writing in Education

A Guide to Writing in Education, part of the Writer’s Help Guidebook Series, offers writing and research support for students writing in the discipline. This compact yet comprehensive guidebook provides the value students want with the essential instruction they need to complete writing tasks successfully. Students will find advice on how to think, read, research, and design and write papers, and projects and presentations like an education professional. Coverage includes the following topics, all focused on the specific needs of writers in education: Writing process Conventions in the discipline Integrating and evaluating sources Documentation style required in the discipline--with plenty of models Sample student writing

Table of Contents:
Introduction: A Guide to Writing in Education Thinking like a writer in education Questions writers in education ask Kinds of evidence education writers use Ethics in education Researching education Using databases to locate education publications Books and online resources Primary and secondary sources Evaluating sources Drawing on expert opinion Reading in education Active reading How to read research studies, case studies, and reports How to read qualitative and quantitative studies The process of writing papers and projects in education Considering your purpose Understanding your audience and their expectations Checklist for assessing the writing situation Distinguishing fact, opinion, and value Choosing topics and forming thesis statements Drafting and developing a thesis Four approaches to revising thesis statements Organizing and drafting Revising and editing Writing conventions in education Writing strong sentences Choosing vocabulary Using visuals and presenting data Integrating, citing, and documenting sources in education Avoiding plagiarism and recognizing intellectual property Quoting and summarizing sources In-text citations in APA style Reference list in APA style APA manuscript format Genres of writing in education Argument or position paper Annotated bibliography Case study Curriculum design or lesson plan Literature review Policy paper or white paper Poster presentation Reflective paper Research proposal Research paper Glossary of vocabulary in education References Additional resources for writers in education Practice activities Practice activity: Developing a research area or topic Practice activity: Using a database for research Practice activity: Reading research critically Practice activity: Evaluating a research article Practice activity: Writing direct quotations and summaries Sample student writing: Education Case study: Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Lesson plan and reflection: Integrated Planned Experience and Reflection Reflective writing: A Reflection on Service Learning: Working With Eric More help with documentation: APA style APA-style reference list: Additional examples Editing strategies Subject-verb agreement Pronoun agreement, reference, and case Strong verbs Sentence fragments Run-on sentences Distracting shifts Parallel structure Clear, uncluttered sentences Sentence emphasis Commas Apostrophes Quotation marks

About the Author :
Stephen A. Bernhardt is Professor of English and the Andrew B. Kirkpatrick Chair in Writing at the University of Delaware, where he teaches composition, grammar, and technical writing. His professional interests include computers in composition/distance education, writing across the curriculum, professional and technical communication, and visual rhetoric. He has also taught at New Mexico State University and at Southern Illinois University. The author of many journal articles and technical reports, Bernhardt is also the author of Writing at Work (1997) and coeditor of Expanding Literacies: English Teaching and the New Workplace (1998). Bernhardt designed the research plan and reworked content for Writers Help. Nancy Sommers, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She led Harvard’s Expository Writing Program for twenty years, directing the first-year writing program and establishing Harvard’s WAC program. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well known for her research and publications on student writing. Her articles “Revision Strategies of Student and Experienced Writers” and “Responding to Student Writing” are two of the most widely read and anthologized articles in the field of composition. Recently she has been exploring different audiences through blogging and through publishing in popular media. Sommers is the lead author on Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, and is coauthor of Fields of Reading, Tenth Edition (2013).