The Quick Fix Guide to Academic Writing: How to Avoid Big Mistakes and Small Errors : 9781526405890

Whether you're writing a paper, essay, assignment, or dissertation, this short and punchy book helps you improve your writing skills through minimal effort.

Providing you with a quick set of writing rules to follow, this tried and tested guide uses a unique and easy to follow grid-based system. Packed with advice on understanding (big and little) common errors made in academic writing, it helps you identify patterns in your own writing and demonstrates how to reshape or re-evaluate them - and raise your writing game in any academic context.

How-to tutorials include:

• Synthesizing and critiquing literature - and using your coding sheet to develop critical arguments
• Shaping abstracts, introductions, discussions, and conclusions - to improve the logic and structure of your writing
• Applying lessons-learned to future projects, whatever format of academic writing.

Save time and improve your grades, with this essential quick fix guide!

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.

Author: Phillip C. Shon

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Publication Date: Nov 25, 2017

Number of Pages: 152 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 152640589X

ISBN-13: 9781526405890