Writing for Academic Success
- Gail Craswell - Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Megan Poore - Australian National University, Australia
Student Success
Writing for Academic Success is a vital practical guide for any graduate student. If you seek to manage your writing effectively, reduce stress, and improve your confidence and efficiency, this book is for you. The authors show you how to acquire communicative rigor in research essays, reports, book and article reviews, exam papers, research proposals, and literature reviews, through to thesis writing, posters and papers for presentation and publication.
This Second Edition has been fully revised to reflect the online learning explosion. The authors provide insightful new material about how to work productively in different online contexts such as with blogs and wikis, setting up an e-portfolio, and raising an online profile. They also set out a focused guide to issues unique to digital communication, and working with and across different media and technologies.
The book includes advice on common writing concerns, cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary practices, a list of helpful words and phrases, and subject-specific examples of writing ranging from economics to philosophy to medicine. Writing for Academic Success is essential for graduate students both in taught courses and conducting research, and is also very useful for upper-level undergraduates.
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This is one of the books which will be recommended for our 2nd and 3rd years UG students in preparation for their dissertations.
This text will be used to support students who are lacking in confidence with their academic writing and those that require extra guidance from Learning Mentors.
This textbook is particularly important for first and second year students. However, some 3rd year student also found it beneficial as a review book when writing their dissertation.
Case studies will be particularly useful for learners to embed their skills.
A useful check for any student and a very useful guide for those who find academic writing more challenging.
good and adopted
the book is ok, but a bit general and thin on content. would not recommend as an essential book but students may view it as an option. we may order it for the library.
excellent book which supports both students and novice researchers well worth reading.
This text is extremely useful especially for students who are new to higher education and need to develop their academic writing skills
well structured, easy to read and relevant to formative and summative asssessments. Particular like the chapter on writing for research projects. This is relevant to the 15 students I teach on the 'Adult Social Work Elective' module.