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Academic writing books @JCU Library

Doing essays and assignments: Essential tips for students by Pete Greasley
Call Number: 808.066 GRE
This book gives students an insiders view of what professors are looking for when they set essays and assignments. It also leads its readers through all of the skills required for the process of essay and assignment writing.
The student's guide to writing essays by David Roberts
Call Number: eBook
This text is divided into two sections: a core element focusing on basic skills which everyone needs to master in writing essays, and a subject-based section which takes the student to a more advanced level.
They say / I say: The moves that matter in academic writing by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein and Russel Durst
Call Number: 808.042 GRA
This book demystifies academic writing by identifying its key rhetorical moves, the most important of which is to summarize what others have said ("they say") to set up one's own argument ("I say").