Academic Writing: Exploring Processes and Strategies
is aimed at students who are learning to write for academic contexts. Its goal
is to help students develop two types of strategies: strategies for producing
texts and strategies for preparing and polishing texts for readers in academic settings.
The novice writer needs instruction on the process that writers go through in
order to produce texts: a process of exploration and generation of ideas on paper;
of seeking out appropriate feedback; and of reworking and revising the presentation
of those ideas. The novice writer also needs to learn how to meet the demands of
the academy by attention to form, format, accuracy, and correctness. Academic
Writing: Exploring Processes and Strategies helps writers develop
competence in all these areas.