This text has established itself as a successful and popular introductory student guide. This fully revised and expanded third edition offers practical help and guidance. It shows the reader how to approach novels, plays and poems, and includes chapters on themes, characters, structure, style, irony and analysis. In addition, sections on writing essays, how to revise, and how to use the critics make this book an invaluable companion for anyone [...]

Academic Writing has been written for intermediate level students who are preparing to study, or are already studying, in an academic environment and need to improve their writing skills. This book takes stduents from paragraph structuring to essay writing through a process approach. It teachers learners how to order and link paragraphs into cohesive and coherant essays and to create the various paragraph types that are used in written [...]