Writing for Academic Success
- Gail Craswell - Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Megan Poore - Australian National University, Australia
Student Success
Writing for Academic Success is a vital practical guide for any ambitious student. If you seek to manage your writing effectively, reduce stress, and improve your confidence and efficiency, this book is for you. The authors show you how to acquire communicative rigor in research essays, reports, book and article reviews, exam papers, research proposals, and literature reviews, through to thesis writing, posters and papers for presentation and publication.
This second edition has been fully revised to reflect the online learning explosion. The authors provide insightful new material about how to work productively in different online contexts such as with blogs and wikis, setting up an e-portfolio, and raising an online profile. They also set out a focused guide to issues unique to digital communication, and working with and across different media and technologies.
The book includes advice on common writing concerns, cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary practices, a list of helpful words and phrases, and subject-specific examples of writing ranging from economics to philosophy to medicine. Writing for Academic Success is essential for undergraduate and postgraduate students both in taught courses and conducting research.
Student Success is a series of essential guides for students of all levels. From how to think critically and write great essays to boosting your employability and managing your wellbeing, the Student Success series helps you study smarter and get the best from your time at university.
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For this and all other modules, this is a useful reference book for both struggling students and good students who want to improve their marks to excellent.
Helpful book for those new to academic writing.
good general reader
A very good update of an already fine book. Strongly recommended for all students.
A useful book, especially for those new to post-graduate study, it perhaps lacks some focus in its application but contains much useful guidance that I would wish all candidates on PG programmes would heed.
A practical guide for students with valuable exercises
A good clear text which was laid out in an user friendly manner. Up to date and addressed sme of the professional issues that students do not consider.
Most cases and examples do not match very well with the type of exams and presentations we take our German students through. I like the concept of the book and might adopt it when I teach in the UK or in the US, but in the German university context it does not fit very well.
This book is in our library and I refer students to it and recommend that they buy a copy.
Would recommend this book to all graduate students
