Work in Progress A Guide to Academic Writing and Revising

- A brief, process-oriented rhetoric. Easily adaptable to many teaching styles and situations, Work in Progress provides students with techniques for working individually and collaboratively to navigate each stage of the writing process -- techniques that are soundly based on current composition theory.- A focus on understanding rhetorical situations. Work in Progress emphasizes making appropriate choices for different writing situations -- rhetorical sensitivity -- and provides numerous practical guidelines and models that will help students handle all kinds of academic writing.- Two new chapters on academic writing. Chapter Four covers the key topics of searching for and evaluating sources; summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting; and documenting sources. It also includes a sample student research paper that demonstrates the integration of sources, citation formats, and visual elements. Chapter 15 gives a concrete example of the development of one student's essay from first draft to final draft to help other students learn how to strengthen the arguments in their own writing.Ede, Lisa S. is the author of 'Work in Progress A Guide to Academic Writing and Revising', published 2001 under ISBN 9780312250850 and ISBN 0312250851.