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Contents

Introduction

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Acknowledgements

Part 1: THE WRITING PROCESS Student Introduction

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Writing Foundations

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1.1 Background to Writing 1.2 Avoiding Plagiarism 1.3 From Titles to Outlines

Reading and Note-making

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1.4 Evaluating Texts 1.5 Understanding Purpose and Register 1.6 Selecting Key Points

1.7 Note-making 1.8 Paraphrasing 1.9 Summary Writing 1.10 Combining Sources

Writing Stages

1.11 Planning Essays 1.12 Organising Paragraphs 1.13 Organising the Main Body 1.14 Introductions 1.15 Conclusions 1.16 Rewriting and Proof-reading

Part 2: ELEMENTS OF WRITING Student Introduction

This may be partly true, but. . . Flooding results from heavy rain The former. . ., while the latter. . . His work is more interesting than hers An assignment is a task given to students Benefits and drawbacks Many departments, for instance medicine, Computers are useful machines The figures in the report. . . In recent years the internet has. . . As Donner (1997) pointed out. . . In other words. . . Precise, semi-formal, impersonal and objective

2.1 Argument 2.2 Cause and Effect 2.3 Cohesion 2.4 Comparison 2.5 Definitions 2.6 Discussion 2.7 Examples 2.8 Generalisations 2.9 Numbers 2.10 Opening Paragraphs

2.11 References and Quotations 2.12 Restatement and Repetition 2.13 Style 2.14 Synonyms 2.15 Variation in Sentence Length 2.16 Visual Information

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Interpretation/explanation Long vs. short sentences Graphs, charts and tables