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Language Arts & Disciplines Composition & Creative Writing

Writing for the Academic Disciplines

A Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook

by (author) Sally Hayward

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2015
Category
Composition & Creative Writing
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780199002375
    Publish Date
    Jan 2015
    List Price
    $134.99

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Description

Combining a rhetoric, a reader, and a handbook, this three-in-one volume explores the conventions and forms of academic writing common throughout the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences. By progressing through the engaging lessons, readings, and exercises, students will build the skills they need to write with confidence in their chosen discipline.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Sally Hayward received her PhD in 2006 from the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She has served as an instructor in the Academic Writing Program at the University of Lethbridge. Sally's research interests focus on composition, genre theory, and the rhetorical and narrative construction of disability. She has written a grammar chapter for Brundage/Lahey's Acting on Words: An Integrated Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook, 3e (PEC 2012) and a number of articles that focus on the representation of disability in literature, law, media, and medicine.

Editorial Reviews

"This text covers writing techniques across disciplines and appeals to writers/students who are associated with a variety of subjects and professions." --Marissa Reaume, University of Windsor

"This text provides an excellent introduction to the nature and requirements of academic writing. . . . It makes grammar more comprehensible to students than any other text I've examined." --Melanie Murray, Okanagan College