Writing for Academic Success - Paperback

by Gail Craswell (Author), Megan Poore (Author)

Writing for Academic Success is a vital practical guide for any graduate student. If you seek to manage your writing effectively, reduce stress, and improve your confidence and efficiency, this book is for you. The authors show you how to acquire communicative rigor in research essays, reports, book and article reviews, exam papers, research proposals, and literature reviews, through to thesis writing, posters and papers for presentation and publication.

This Second Edition has been fully revised to reflect the online learning explosion. The authors provide insightful new material about how to work productively in different online contexts such as with blogs and wikis, setting up an e-portfolio, and raising an online profile. They also set out a focused guide to issues unique to digital communication, and working with and across different media and technologies.

The book includes advice on common writing concerns, cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary practices, a list of helpful words and phrases, and subject-specific examples of writing ranging from economics to philosophy to medicine. Writing for Academic Success is essential for graduate students both in taught courses and conducting research, and is also very useful for upper-level undergraduates.

Author Biography

Gail Craswell was Senior Adviser to Graduate Students at the Australian National University. Gail developed, organised and taught on an extensive, academic and professional skills training program for research students, and did likewise with a preparatory program for international graduates.

Megan Poore is an Assistant Professor in Teacher Education at the University of Canberra where she works closely with graduate students in preparing them for teaching and learning in digital environments.