Designs for disciplines : an introduction to academic writing /

Designs for disciplines : an introduction to academic writing / edited by Steven C. Roe and Pamela H. den Ouden. - Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press, 2003. - xx, 328 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The concept of genre -- Personal essays -- Academic research -- Skimming, note-taking, and summarizing -- Proposals and the formality of scholarly style -- Front matter and scholarly introductions -- Core paragraphs in a research paper -- Scholarly conclusions -- Writing in the sciences

This is a textbook for college and university classes in discipline-based composition. Grounded in contemporary genre theory, this text provides practical ideas about how to develop a sophisticated research paper. It respectfully addresses undergraduate students as apprentice scholars, thus departing from journalistic approaches to composition.

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