Essential Actions for Academic Writing

A Genre-Based Approach

Nigel A Caplan author Ann Johns author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Michigan Press

Published:9th Mar '22

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Essential Actions for Academic Writing is a writing textbook for all beginning academic students, undergraduate or graduate, to help them understand how to write effectively throughout their academic and professional careers. Essential Actions combines genre research, proven pedagogical practices, and short readings to help students writing in their first, second, or additional languages to develop their rhetorical flexibility by exploring and practicing the key actions that will appear in academic assignments, such as explaining, summarizing, synthesizing, and arguing.

Part I:

  • Introduces students to rhetorical situation, genre, register, source use, and a framework for understanding how to approach any new writing task.
  • Demonstrates that all writing responds to a context that includes the writer’s identity, the reader’s expectations, the purpose of the text, and the conventions that shape it.

Part II:

  • Explores the essential actions of academic writing (explain, summarize, synthesize, report and interpret data, argue, respond, and analyze).
  • Provides examples of the genres and language that support each action.

Part III:

  • Offers four extended projects that combine the essential actions in different genres and contexts.
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"Overall, we believe Essential Actions for Academic Writing is an excellent textbook for teachers who want options and choice in how they build upon their students’ writing skills. . . The book’s accessibility, content structure, and relevance to college students are particularly strong. Essential Actions in the classroom will likely guide instructors to be more intentional in building students’ understanding of rhetorical decisions, language flexibility, and their agency as writers."

ISBN: 9780472037964

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346 pages