How Writing Works - A Guide to Composing Genres

List of contents

• Part 1 : The Genre Toolkit


• 1. What Is It?


• 2. Who Reads It?


• 3. What's It For?


• Part 2: Projects


• 4. Profiles


• 5. Analyses


• 6. Reviews


• 7. Argumentative Genres


• 8. Academic Research Genres


• 9. Workplace Genres


• Part 3: Writing Process


• 10. Creating a Writing Process


• 11. Developing a Topic


• 12. Prewriting


• 13. Drafting


• 14. Generating Arguments


• 15. Organizing


• 16. Developing Style


• 17. Revising and Editing


• Part 4: Research


• 18. Getting Started with Research


• 19. Conducting Database Research


• 20. Conducting Empirical Research


• 21. Avoiding Plagiarism


• 22. Integrating Sources


• 23. Citing Sources


• Part 5: Making It Public


• 24. Designing Your Project


• 25. Publishing and Presenting

About the author

Jordynn Jack, Ph.D., is Chi Omega Distinguished Term Professor in English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Katie Rose Guest Pryal, J.D., Ph.D., is a writer and keynote speaker, an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an Instructor in the Creative Writing Program at Drexel University.

Product details

• Authors: Jordynn Jack, Jordynn Pryal Jack, Katie Rose Guest Pryal, Katie Rose Guest Pryal
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2023
• EAN: 9780197619162
• ISBN: 978-0-19-761916-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Writing & editing guides, Writing and editing guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General