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

English

By (author): Phillip C. Shon

Whether youre 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!


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Product Details
  • Weight: 290g
  • Dimensions: 170 x 242mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Nov 2017
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781526405890

About Phillip C. Shon

Phillip C. Shon received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois (Chicago); he also holds an M.A. in linguistics and a B.A. in philosophy from Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago). He is currently a Professor of Criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology where he teaches courses in homicide and criminological theory. He is the author of How to Read Journal Articles in the Social Sciences (2nd ed.). London: Sage 2015; Language and Demeanor in Police-Citizen Encounters. Lanham MD: University Press of America 2008; Respect Defense and Self-Identity: Profiling Parricide in Nineteenth-Century America 1852-1899. New York: Peter Lang 2014. He is a co-editor (with Dragan Milovanovic) of Serial Killers: Understanding Lust Murders. (eds). Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press 2006. Phil grew up in Chicago. He no longer hides the shame of being a Cubs fan and has completely forgotten Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series. He is patiently awaiting the Chicago Bears to come up with a sequel to the Super Bowl Shuffle before they return once more to the Promised Land. 

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