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How to Use Your Reading in Your Essays (Palgrave Study Skills)

How to Use Your Reading in Your Essays (Palgrave Study Skills)
By Jeanne Godfrey

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Featuring real texts and examples of student writing, this practical book guides the undergraduate student through the process of effectively using reading in their essays. It covers - selecting what to read, how to quote, paraphrase and summarise sources, through to spotting and correcting mistakes in the final essay.


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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #52870 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-05-22
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 160 pages

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'Combines a clearsightedness about the academic process, (from deciding what to read to polishing a final draft), with detailed advice and activities in specific areas of language, usage and grammar'
-Kate Williams, Oxford Brookes University, UK
 

About the Author
JEANNE GODFREY is Head of the Academic Writing Centre and Principal Lecturer in Teaching and Learning at the University of Westminster, UK. She has been teaching in the field of English language for over twenty years and has been a Chair of the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes.  She set up one of the first Academic Writing Centres in a UK University and is now working with lecturers and students in many areas of learning and curriculum development, with particular emphasis on academic writing development


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Great book5
Excellent explanations and examples are given in a user-friendly way. A must for students of all ages.