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Author Rienecker, Lotte.

Title The Good Paper International Edition : a Handbook for Writing Papers in Higher Education.

Publication Info. Chicago : Samfundslitteratur, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (431 pages)
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Contents Frontcover -- Colophon -- CONTENTS -- Foreword to the English edition -- Use -- Changes in this edition -- Activity book -- Contact the authors -- Other books on writing by the authors of The Good Paper -- Reader's guide -- 1. Good papers in higher rducation -- Genres and quality criteria -- The research paper as a genre -- The research genre investigates a subject-specific problem -- The research paper meets scientific and scholarly requirements -- Research means bringing factors into play -- The research text is hierarchical -- Academic speech acts
Research is both the knowledge and the inquiry of the field -- Requirements and qualities of the good paper in higher education -- Avoid common misconceptions of what constitutes a good paper -- Other types of papers and genres you as a student will have to write -- Other types of papers: Popularising papers, practice papers, tests -- The foundation of your research -- the paper's pentagon -- Examples of good papers in the pentagon model -- What can be included in the pentagon's corners? -- Use the pentagon model -- The good paper's quality criteria -- A teacher's comments on a paper
Rhetoric of science -- 1. In the good paper, the writer is professional and displays independence -- 2. The good paper uses the field's knowledge and tools -- 3. The good paper is focused -- 4. The good paper is "written" on the top of the taxonomies of educational objectives. -- 5. The good paper is an argument -- 6. The good paper is critical of its own material, its field and of itself -- 7. The good paper communicates on a meta level -- 8. The good paper meets the curriculum's parameters -- Examples of qualities in bachelor theses -- Nuances?
The different purposes and ideals of the Anglo-American and Continental research traditions -- Advice to students writing in the Continental tradition -- 2. Writing processes of research papers -- Choice of topic -- Your interest in the topic -- The good topic -- The useful topic -- Theoretical, abstract or concrete topics? -- After choosing a topic, the first thing you should do is write -- You have started writing, yes, but what? -- Write before and while you read -- Write backwards -- start with the conclusion -- Begin with the central aspects
Put off in depth studies of theory and history, summaries and descriptions -- Be flexible when writing -- More revisions? -- Introductory writing is writing to think -- Brainstorming -- Mind mapping -- The techniques of writing to think -- Non-stop writing -- Broad writing -- Display (visual representations) i.e. drawing the central content of your paper -- Why write to think? -- From writing to think to drafts to finished papers -- Writing with or without an outline -- The texts of the writing process: Notes, drafts and finished text -- Revising a text -- Should you write with a reader in mind?
Note Criteria for revision.
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Subject Dissertations, Academic -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dissertations, Academic.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals.
Subject Academic writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Academic writing.
Education, Higher -- Study and teaching -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Education, Higher -- Study and teaching.
Education, Higher.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Handbooks and manuals.
Added Author Jørgensen, Peter Stray.
Other Form: Print version: Rienecker, Lotte. Good Paper International Edition. Chicago : Samfundslitteratur, ©2017 9788759331330
ISBN 8759331046
9788759331040 (electronic book)