From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Practical Guide by Stuart Greene

From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Practical Guide by Stuart Greene

From Inquiry to Academic Writing helps students understand academic culture and its ways of reading, thinking, and writing. With a practical and now widely proven step-by-step approach, this text demystifies cross-curricular thinking and writing.

The fourth edition provides extensive coverage of academic habits and skills: reflection, summary, synthesis, and visual analysis. More than 40 readings, one quarter of which are new, bring students into debates that not only bear on their college careers but also reflect larger cultural issues that they will encounter outside the academy.

Combine the text with LaunchPad forFrom Inquiry to Academic Writing for even more engaging content and new ways to get the most out of your course. This LaunchPad includes

• Interactive exercises and tutorials for reading, writing, and research;


• LearningCurve, adaptive, game-like practice that helps students focus on the topics where they need the most help, such as fallacies, claims, evidence, and other key elements of argument;


• Text-specific reading comprehension quizzes.


• Practice sequences to help students apply the strategies of observing, asking questions, and examining alternatives.

Stuart Greene received his Ph.D. in English from Carnegie Mellon in English.He is associate professor of English with a joint appointment in Africana Studies at Notre Dame. His research has focused on the intersections of race, poverty, and achievement in public schools. This work has led to the publication of his co-edited volume, Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Racial Understanding (Teachers College Press, 2003), for which he won the National Council of Teachers of English Richard A. Meade Award in 2005. He also edited Literacy as a Civil Right (Peter Lang, 2008) and co-edited Bedtime Stories and Book Reports: Connecting Parent Involvement and Family(Teachers College Press, 2010) with Cathy Compton-Lilly. His current book is Race, Community, and Urban Schools: Partnering with African American Families (Teachers College Press, 2013). April Lidinsky (PhD, Literatures in English, Rutgers) is Associate Professor of Women s Studies at Indiana University South Bend. She has published and delivered numerous conference papers on writing pedagogy, women's autobiography, creative nonfiction, and film, and has contributed to several textbooks on writing. She has served as acting director of the University Writing Program at Notre Dame and has won several awards for her teaching and research.

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ISBN 13	9781457661693
ISBN 10	1457661691
Title	From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Practical Guide
Author	Stuart Greene
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bedford Books
Year published	2014-12-12
Number of pages	384
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