Making Your Case: A Practical Guide to Essay Writing (Speak-Write Series)

This practical book demystifies the processes of academic writing through careful explanation and a series of engaging and practical examples.

* The techniques and strategies offered apply to all forms of writing which require a degree of argument and analysis.
* Places emphasis on drafting, redrafting, adaptation and correction as essential processes in the transformation and communication of ideas.
* Outlines the skills central to academic essay writing including moving beyond knowledge to understanding; discriminating between one idea and another; and building up ideas to make a case.
* Introduces the history and variety of the essay as a genre as well as the range of styles and voices employed by contemporary critics and students.
* Provides a guide to the three different systems of referencing currently used in academic writing.