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How to Write Essays and Dissertations : a Guide for English Literature Students.
"This essential guide to writing essays and dissertations for English literature students offers step-by-step instruction on each stage of writing, from organising initial ideas through to submitting a completed piece of work. It also explains the general principles that underlie essay topics a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2005.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION; The importance of writing in literary studies; Four basic principles; Practice and experimentation; Preparing for work; UNIT 2: WRITING ON A PRESCRIBED TOPIC; What essay questions ask you to do; Types of prescribed question; Exam questions; UNIT 3: DEVISING YOUR OWN TOPIC; Some questions to ask yourself; Giving your chosen topic a structure; Giving your essay a title; UNIT 4: WHAT MARKERS WANT; Assessment criteria; Learning outcomes; FAQs about how you are marked.
- Imagining your reader as someone particularUNIT 5: SELECTING PRIMARY AND SECONDARY TEXTS; How to choose your primary texts; Kinds of primary text and how to use them; How to choose secondary texts; Keeping notes on your reading; UNIT 6: GETTING HELP FROM REFERENCE WORKS, ONLINE RESOURCES AND YOUR SUPERVISOR; Using secondary texts; Reference books; Keeping references; Reading what you found; Learning by being supervised; UNIT 7: THE FIRST DRAFT; Starting to write; Keeping to a given format; Writing to an outline; UNIT 8: DEVELOPING YOUR ARGUMENT; Causation, correlation and coincidence.
- Assembling a description or commentaryClassification; Presenting alternative arguments; Experimenting; Providing contexts for texts; Comparing texts; Building an argument around a word; UNIT 9: WEIGHTING DIFFERENT ELEMENTS IN YOUR ARGUMENT; Asserting, justifying and presupposing; Generalising; Giving examples; Signalling attitude to your own argument; UNIT 10: THE VOICE TO WRITE IN; Your register and your voice; Mode of address; Reacting to voices outside your adopted register; Incorporating expressions from outside your adopted register; Expressing taste and value.
- UNIT 11: REVISING AN ESSAY DRAFTShowing your essay's structure; Sign-posting and connectives; Mediating essay material for the reader; Making local edits; Keep earlier drafts or discard them?; UNIT 12: EDITING THE BEGINNING AND ENDING; Particular prominence: the first paragraph; Particular prominence: the last paragraph; Beginnings, endings and essay structure; UNIT 13: INCORPORATING OTHER PEOPLE'S WORDS INTO WHAT YOU WRITE; Quotation and paraphrase; Indicating where someone else's words come from; Plagiarism; UNIT 14: MISTAKES IN SPELLING, GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION.
- What makes something a mistake and why does it matter?Problems with grammar; Punctuation and the boundaries of the sentence: full stop, comma and semi-colon; UNIT 15: HANDING IN; Meeting your deadline; Judging when your essay is finished; Bibliography; Footnotes and endnotes; Abstract or summary; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Final stage before submitting; Preparing for a viva; Publishing your work; Bibliography; Index.