Academic Acts de Eric Henderson

Academic Acts: Summary, Analysis, Synthesis

Eric Henderson

Sean Henry

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mar 2020

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.

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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.