Essential Knowledge and Skills for Essay Writing - Bowen, Neil E. J. A.
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Designed for intermediate and advanced users of English, Essential Knowledge and Skills for Essay Writing offers an integrated approach to composition writing by focusing on both the processes and products of writing. Consisting of five units, which cover Essay Writing Basics, Descriptive Writing, Narrative Writing, Expository Writing, and Argument Writing, the book will help students with the following skills: ¿ Recognizing and evaluating texts for key language features (formal knowledge), such as descriptive phrases, figurative language, and various transitional devices. ¿ Generating ideas…mehr

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Designed for intermediate and advanced users of English, Essential Knowledge and Skills for Essay Writing offers an integrated approach to composition writing by focusing on both the processes and products of writing. Consisting of five units, which cover Essay Writing Basics, Descriptive Writing, Narrative Writing, Expository Writing, and Argument Writing, the book will help students with the following skills: ¿ Recognizing and evaluating texts for key language features (formal knowledge), such as descriptive phrases, figurative language, and various transitional devices. ¿ Generating ideas and content (subject knowledge) using critical questions, collaborative discussions, and visualization techniques. ¿ Applying key reflective practices (process knowledge), such as revisions strategies, scoring rubrics, and organizational techniques to help complete longer writing tasks, ¿ Composing larger functional units (rhetorical knowledge) while ensuring unity, cohesion, and a clear overall purpose. The book's content and layout are carefully tailored for student writers, and includes color highlighting, callout boxes for key terms, plentiful exercises with answer keys, and model examples taken from actual students' essays as well as published texts.
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Neil Bowen is an Associate Professor at Thammasat University and an ESRC Doctoral graduate from Cardiff University. He holds a PhD in Language and Communication, an MA in Applied Linguistics, and a BA in English and TEFL. His research focuses on process-product relationships in writing using a combined cognitive and Systemic Functional Linguistics approach. His 2019 article, "Unfolding choices in digital writing: A functional perspective on the language of academic revisions," was the runner-up for the 2022 John R. Hayes' best article award given by the Journal of Writing Research. His work can also be seen in other prominent journals such as Journal of Second Language Writing, TESOL Quarterly, Written Communication, Computers and Composition, Teaching and Teacher Education, System, and others.