Book Title: Building Blocks of Academic Writing
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Book Description: Building Blocks of Academic Writing covers typical writing situations for developing academic writers, from prewriting and research through expressing themselves online. Developmental work in different types of paragraphs—descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive—allows students to build capacity for longer essays. Each chapter includes review questions with a Canadian focus that instructors can assign to help students practise the skills developed in the text.
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Building Blocks of Academic Writing covers typical writing situations for developing academic writers, from prewriting and research through expressing themselves online. Developmental work in different types of paragraphs—descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive—allows students to build capacity for longer essays. Each chapter includes review questions with a Canadian focus that instructors can assign to help students practise the skills developed in the text.
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Building Blocks of Academic Writing by Carellin Brooks is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Educational: First / native language: Reading and writing skills
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Building Blocks of Academic Writing by Carellin Brooks is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
© 2020 Carellin Brooks
Building Blocks of Academic Writing is an adaptation of Commonsense Composition by Crystle Bruno, Jen Jebens, Fabio Coelho, Jen Hagemann, and Peter Gambrill, and edited by Jan Jose State University (© 2019 CK-12 Foundation), which is under a CC BY-NC 3.0 Licence. For more information about the changes made in this adaptation, refer to the Adaptation Statement.
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Building Blocks of Academic Writing by Carellin Brooks is used under a CC BY-NC 4.0 Licence.If you redistribute all or part of this book, it is recommended the following statement be added to the copyright page so readers can access the original book at no cost:
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Ebook ISBN: 978-1-77420-057-5
Print ISBN: 978-1-77420-056-8
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