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How to write essays and dissertations : a guide for English literature students / / Nigel Fabb and Alan Durant
| How to write essays and dissertations : a guide for English literature students / / Nigel Fabb and Alan Durant |
| Autore | Fabb Nigel |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808/.0668 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | DurantAlan |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Dissertations, Academic English language - Rhetoric Essay - Authorship Academic writing |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-315-83547-9
1-317-86797-1 1-281-38484-4 9786611384845 1-4082-1178-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""PREFACE""; ""UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION""; ""The importance of writing in literary studies""; ""Four basic principles""; ""Practice and experimentation""; ""Preparing for work""; ""UNIT 2: WRITING ON A PRESCRIBED TOPIC""; ""What essay questions ask you to do""; ""Types of prescribed question""; ""Exam questions""; ""UNIT 3: DEVISING YOUR OWN TOPIC""; ""Some questions to ask yourself""; ""Giving your chosen topic a structure""; ""Giving your essay a title""; ""UNIT 4: WHAT MARKERS WANT""; ""Assessment criteria""
""Learning outcomes""""FAQs about how you are marked""; ""Imagining your reader as someone particular""; ""UNIT 5: SELECTING PRIMARY AND SECONDARY TEXTS""; ""How to choose your primary texts""; ""Kinds of primary text and how to use them""; ""How to choose secondary texts""; ""Keeping notes on your reading""; ""UNIT 6: GETTING HELP FROM REFERENCE WORKS, ONLINE RESOURCES AND YOUR SUPERVISOR""; ""Using secondary texts""; ""Reference books""; ""Keeping references""; ""Reading what you found""; ""Learning by being supervised""; ""UNIT 7: THE FIRST DRAFT""; ""Starting to write"" ""Keeping to a given format""""Writing to an outline""; ""UNIT 8: DEVELOPING YOUR ARGUMENT""; ""Causation, correlation and coincidence""; ""Assembling a description or commentary""; ""Classification""; ""Presenting alternative arguments""; ""Experimenting""; ""Providing contexts for texts""; ""Comparing texts""; ""Building an argument around a word""; ""UNIT 9: WEIGHTING DIFFERENT ELEMENTS IN YOUR ARGUMENT""; ""Asserting, justifying and presupposing""; ""Generalising""; ""Giving examples""; ""Signalling attitude to your own argument""; ""UNIT 10: THE VOICE TO WRITE IN"" ""Your register and your voice""""Mode of address""; ""Reacting to voices outside your adopted register""; ""Incorporating expressions from outside your adopted register""; ""Expressing taste and value""; ""UNIT 11: REVISING AN ESSAY DRAFT""; ""Showing your essay's structure""; ""Sign-posting and connectives""; ""Mediating essay material for the reader""; ""Making local edits""; ""Keep earlier drafts or discard them?""; ""UNIT 12: EDITING THE BEGINNING AND ENDING""; ""Particular prominence: the first paragraph""; ""Particular prominence: the last paragraph"" ""Beginnings, endings and essay structure""""UNIT 13: INCORPORATING OTHER PEOPLE'S WORDS INTO WHAT YOU WRITE""; ""Quotation and paraphrase""; ""Indicating where someone else's words come from""; ""Plagiarism""; ""UNIT 14: MISTAKES IN SPELLING, GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION""; ""What makes something a mistake and why does it matter?""; ""Problems with grammar""; ""Punctuation and the boundaries of the sentence: full stop, comma and semi-colon""; ""UNIT 15: HANDING IN""; ""Meeting your deadline""; ""Judging when your essay is finished""; ""Bibliography""; ""Footnotes and endnotes"" ""Abstract or summary"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451140303321 |
Fabb Nigel
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How to write essays and dissertations : a guide for English literature students / / Nigel Fabb and Alan Durant
| How to write essays and dissertations : a guide for English literature students / / Nigel Fabb and Alan Durant |
| Autore | Fabb Nigel |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808/.0668 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | DurantAlan |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Dissertations, Academic English language - Rhetoric Essay - Authorship Academic writing |
| ISBN |
1-315-83547-9
1-317-86797-1 1-281-38484-4 9786611384845 1-4082-1178-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""PREFACE""; ""UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION""; ""The importance of writing in literary studies""; ""Four basic principles""; ""Practice and experimentation""; ""Preparing for work""; ""UNIT 2: WRITING ON A PRESCRIBED TOPIC""; ""What essay questions ask you to do""; ""Types of prescribed question""; ""Exam questions""; ""UNIT 3: DEVISING YOUR OWN TOPIC""; ""Some questions to ask yourself""; ""Giving your chosen topic a structure""; ""Giving your essay a title""; ""UNIT 4: WHAT MARKERS WANT""; ""Assessment criteria""
""Learning outcomes""""FAQs about how you are marked""; ""Imagining your reader as someone particular""; ""UNIT 5: SELECTING PRIMARY AND SECONDARY TEXTS""; ""How to choose your primary texts""; ""Kinds of primary text and how to use them""; ""How to choose secondary texts""; ""Keeping notes on your reading""; ""UNIT 6: GETTING HELP FROM REFERENCE WORKS, ONLINE RESOURCES AND YOUR SUPERVISOR""; ""Using secondary texts""; ""Reference books""; ""Keeping references""; ""Reading what you found""; ""Learning by being supervised""; ""UNIT 7: THE FIRST DRAFT""; ""Starting to write"" ""Keeping to a given format""""Writing to an outline""; ""UNIT 8: DEVELOPING YOUR ARGUMENT""; ""Causation, correlation and coincidence""; ""Assembling a description or commentary""; ""Classification""; ""Presenting alternative arguments""; ""Experimenting""; ""Providing contexts for texts""; ""Comparing texts""; ""Building an argument around a word""; ""UNIT 9: WEIGHTING DIFFERENT ELEMENTS IN YOUR ARGUMENT""; ""Asserting, justifying and presupposing""; ""Generalising""; ""Giving examples""; ""Signalling attitude to your own argument""; ""UNIT 10: THE VOICE TO WRITE IN"" ""Your register and your voice""""Mode of address""; ""Reacting to voices outside your adopted register""; ""Incorporating expressions from outside your adopted register""; ""Expressing taste and value""; ""UNIT 11: REVISING AN ESSAY DRAFT""; ""Showing your essay's structure""; ""Sign-posting and connectives""; ""Mediating essay material for the reader""; ""Making local edits""; ""Keep earlier drafts or discard them?""; ""UNIT 12: EDITING THE BEGINNING AND ENDING""; ""Particular prominence: the first paragraph""; ""Particular prominence: the last paragraph"" ""Beginnings, endings and essay structure""""UNIT 13: INCORPORATING OTHER PEOPLE'S WORDS INTO WHAT YOU WRITE""; ""Quotation and paraphrase""; ""Indicating where someone else's words come from""; ""Plagiarism""; ""UNIT 14: MISTAKES IN SPELLING, GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION""; ""What makes something a mistake and why does it matter?""; ""Problems with grammar""; ""Punctuation and the boundaries of the sentence: full stop, comma and semi-colon""; ""UNIT 15: HANDING IN""; ""Meeting your deadline""; ""Judging when your essay is finished""; ""Bibliography""; ""Footnotes and endnotes"" ""Abstract or summary"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784811603321 |
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Fabb Nigel
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How to write essays and dissertations : a guide for English literature students / / Nigel Fabb and Alan Durant
| How to write essays and dissertations : a guide for English literature students / / Nigel Fabb and Alan Durant |
| Autore | Fabb Nigel |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
| Disciplina |
808/.0668
808.0668 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | DurantAlan |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Dissertations, Academic English language - Rhetoric Essay - Authorship Academic writing |
| ISBN |
1-315-83547-9
1-317-86797-1 1-281-38484-4 9786611384845 1-4082-1178-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Unit 1. Introduction -- unit 2. Writing on a prescribed topic -- unit 3. Devising your own topic -- unit 4. What markers want -- unit 5. Selecting primary and secondary texts -- unit 6. Getting help from reference works, online resources and your supervisor -- unit 7. The first draft -- unit 8. Developing your argument -- unit 9. Weighting different elements in your argument -- unit 10. The voice to write in -- unit 11. Revising an essay draft -- unit 12. Editing the beginning and ending -- unit 13. Incorporating other people's words into what you write -- unit 14. Mistakes in spelling, grammar and punctuation -- unit 15. Handing in.
""Abstract or summary"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823783003321 |
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Fabb Nigel
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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