The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
Author: Michael Harvey
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2020-08-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1624669204

Updated for the needs of today's students—and with handy citation style guides adapted from The Chicago Manual of Style, Seventeenth Edition, the MLA Handbook, Eighth Edition, and the Publication Manual of the APA, Seventh Edition—the third edition of The Nuts and Bolt of College Writing offers essential guidance for college writers at all levels. Praise for previous editions: "This wonderful little book has helped improve the level of writing in all the courses I teach. No one should graduate from college without having used it." —Gonzalo Munevar, Lawrence Technological University "With concision and wit, Harvey shows college students how to write papers that are clear, cogent, and also stylish." —James Miller, editor, Dædalus "Simply the best guide to clear and effective writing since Strunk and White. Indispensable for students—and for their teachers." —Terry Nardin, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (2nd Edition)

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (2nd Edition)
Author: Michael Harvey
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1603848983

This worthy successor to Strunk and White* now features an expanded style guide covering a wider range of citation cases, complete with up-to-date formats for Chicago, MLA, and APA styles.

Nuts and Bolts

Nuts and Bolts
Author: Thomas Newkirk
Publisher: Boynton/Cook
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1993
Genre: Education
ISBN:

An unabashedly practical book, Nuts Bolts will be the single most useful book a college writing teacher could own.

The Nuts and Bolts of Grant Writing

The Nuts and Bolts of Grant Writing
Author: Cynthia E. Carr
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483323366

In this practical, accessible guide for students, faculty, and other university personnel, author Cynthia E. Carr shares her best practices for planning, writing, and winning research grants based on her own experience submitting more than 300 grant proposals and securing millions of dollars in awards. Insightful, innovative, and informative, the book goes beyond coverage of standard grant writing to specifically address the issues faced by the higher education community, including the university bureaucracy and how to navigate it. The Nuts and Bolts of Grant Writing covers everything from budgets to submissions and federal to foundation competitions, giving novices the opportunity to leapfrog over some of the hard lessons that most college and university grant seekers must learn from trial and error and allowing those with more experience to sharpen their skills.

Writing and Developing Your College Textbook

Writing and Developing Your College Textbook
Author: Mary Ellen Lepionka
Publisher: Atlantic Path Publishing
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780972816472

This is the comprehensively revised second edition of a popular professional book on textbook writing and finding one's way in the higher education publishing world--for academic authors and editors, college instructors, and instructional designers. The second edition has two new chapters on the latest industry trends--such as the pricing revolt, open access movement, and wiki-textbook phenomenon, and on the use of learning objectives to structure textbook package development. Every chapter features new sections, links, forms, models, or examples from an even greater range of college courses. Contains updated and expanded appendices, glossary entries, references, bibliography entries, and index. BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines/Authorship and Publishing

Writing with Sources

Writing with Sources
Author: Gordon Harvey
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1603844848

Developed for Harvard University's Expository Writing Program, Writing with Sources describes the main principles and methods of integrating and citing sources in scholarly work, and provides cogent guidance on avoiding the misuse of sources. The second edition of Writing with Sources is updated throughout, and includes new material on the roles sources play in argument, on assessing the reliability of sources, and on attitudes about writing that can lead to plagiarism.

A Sequence for Academic Writing

A Sequence for Academic Writing
Author: Laurence Behrens
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This brief rhetoric focuses on the key academic writing strategies of summary, synthesis, analysis, and critique. Responding to the growing interest in academic writing, this popular guide focuses on the critical reading and writing strategies necessary to help students interpret and incorporate source material into their own papers. The text employs high-interest readings from a range of disciplines to allow students to practice their summary and synthesis skills, while numerous student papers model the kinds of academic texts students are expected to produce, no matter what their area of study. Individuals who want help with writing up researched or documented papers.

Text Book

Text Book
Author: Robert Scholes
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2001-12-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780312248796

Designed for literature-based writing courses, Text Book introduces students to the idea that literary texts and ordinary spoken and written language share many of the same features. By providing imaginative methods and unique assignments that let students work with those features in their writing, Text Book involves students in the processes of exploring literature creatively, not simply consuming and analyzing it, helping them understand literature "from the inside out."