The second edition of this successful guide to writing for graduate-and undergraduate-students has been modified to include updates and replacements of older data sets; an increased range of disciplines with tasks such as nursing, marketing, and art history; discussions of discourse analysis; a broader discussion of e-mail use that includes current e-mail practices.

Introduction to: An Approach to Academic Writing; General - Specific and specific - general texts; Problem, process and solution; Data commentary; Writing Summaries; Writing Critiques; Constructing a Research