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A Professor's Guide to Writing Essays: The No-Nonsense Plan for Better Writing Kindle Edition

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This isn't a typical book on writing essays. First, it's for college students, graduate students, and even high school students - good writing is good writing; all that changes is the length and complexity of what you write. But the plan stays the same. Second, I'm not going to tell you any cute stories about writing. I'm not going to tell you the standard information about writing. Nor am I going to give you a simple formula for writing an essay. They don't work, and in the long run, they won't help you. What I am going to do is give you a plan for how you should approach writing essays.

This plan works. If you follow it and practice it, you will learn to write much better essays - all types of essays. Because all essays are essentially the same. Most teachers and books will tell you differently. But I think they are wrong. The rules for good writing don't change depending on a certain "type" of essay. The only thing that changes is how you make your case, how you make your argument (and we cover that in Step 5). In this plan, we're not going to cover every aspect of academic writing. We're going to focus on the things that you absolutely have to do in order to create good essays.

How do I know all of this? I've been teaching since 1996. I've taught at every level of schooling, and I've taught students from around the world. Now I work as an associate professor at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where I teach people how to teach. I also publish my own academic writing in some of the top journals in my field (you can look up my work on Google Scholar). So, not only do I know what students need to learn to create great essays, I put this information to the test in my own academic work. And in this book, I boil down all of my experience teaching writing plus my experience as a scholar into a simple, direct, and efficient plan that will improve the quality of your essays.



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Jacob Neumann has been teaching since 1996. He has taught at all levels, from early childhood to the university. He currently works as an associate professor at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where he teaches teacher education classes. He also publishes research on effective teaching methods, teacher knowledge, and educational theory. One of the main goals in his work is to help people become better writers and better teachers.

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10/10 would recommend! This book helps when writing essays in class and the professor that wrote it is absolutely exceptional.
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Del Cole
5.0 out of 5 stars Helps you understand what a good essay has
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2019
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I liked that the book gave examples of the different sections of a high quality essay. I also enjoyed that I was able to read through the creation of an essay. The author provides a topic and walks the reader through all of the steps of the writing process.

I received the book on Saturday and was able to read through majority of it by Monday. I read enough for an essay that I was working on. I used his advice and techniques for my essay, and today I received great feedback from my professor during office hours. While, I still need to work on strengthening my claim in my essay, I received good feedback on my thesis, sentence structure, and clarity. This is a great book to use if you don’t know the foundations of a good essay. This book will help you get to a good place where you can receive good feedback to better develop the topic you are writing on. Meaning, you could have less criticism on the writing itself, and more critiques on how you can further strengthen it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Super HELPFUL!
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Wish I had known about this book years ago; very simple method that makes sense for writing. Also, the author talks about the method, then shows how to apply the methods. The background, thesis statements sentences, introductions, and how these can be varied.
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Julissa Lopez
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book but long shipping!
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I needed this class and I loved how clear and straight to the point this book was. Gives great suggestions and has an easy to follow format. However, I needed this book at a specific time and although I ordered it about a week or so in advance it took forever to ship out! I would have given it five stars only if shipping didn't take so long.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful
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I bought this book as a reference book for my daughter. Almost immediately she found an answer to one of her college course format questions that had been confusing to her. I expect that it will be very useful to her in b the future.
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5.0 out of 5 stars You’ll be a BETTER writer!
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2018
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You’ll be a BETTER writer!!
This book is really a “no-nonsense plan” to write a well thought out essay. It is easy to follow and gives great advice and tips on what to do for an organized paper. Dr. Neumann’s book helps you become a good writer and a better one if you thought you were already. Definitely recommend this book if you need a more clear understanding of how to write a good essay!
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Tyson
5.0 out of 5 stars Important overview of essay writing, broadly informative.
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2018
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I am a college student who writes a lot for classes. Doing okay, I wanted to try and better understand how to approach writing. This book covers a lot of different elements that are important, and tries to persuade the reader to format essays in a certain way. I never outlined before writing, but this book has changed my mind. While not integrating every aspect, I certainly appreciate some ideas that this author has. It is purchasable and a worthwhile read.
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Blythe F. Toussaint
3.0 out of 5 stars Much to offer, but not always a great model
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2023
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I teach college composition and am always looking for a better and more straightforward way to give students the basics of writing good college-level essays. I was very intrigued by this book and its straightforward approach and almost ordered it as a supplement for my classes (to use in addition to the overpriced overblown "writing" textbooks I have to use). However, as I was reading it in the Kindle version, I noticed a key error in the parenthetical citations. In sentences with parenthetical citations, all of the periods were placed at the end of the words of the sentence instead of the true end of the sentence after the final parentheses. This is not correct in either APA or MLA style, and it's something I spend way too much time correcting every single year. It's a shame, as much else was good, but I cannot imagine explaining over and over again why it was done this way in this book. Sorry, but I got a Kindle refund. I'm a little surprised at this basoc error, and I would be courious to know if there is some other explaination for why the citations were done this way.
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Gavin The Guy
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect guide to essay writing
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It is short but effective guidebook that I ever read on essay writing. It highlights the most important ingredients of an essay and shows how to achieve them.
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Marcelalareina
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
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This book has lots of great content, English is my second language, and I found it easy to read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in Germany on July 16, 2022
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Vary good,simply written makes an excellent job describing the writing process. It's especially useful for non native speakers and students. Thank you
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Cristina Rocío
5.0 out of 5 stars This book really works!
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This book is very useful with this book I got an A- and an A+ in both my essays and has really useful information for those who want to write good essays for their terms.
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Jeetendra Rathore
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Sums up all the points succinctly. A great boon for essay writers. Concise and not over bearing. Resource for all age groups.
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JC_NCL
5.0 out of 5 stars Hands down the best book on essay writing I've read!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2019
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This book has helped me so much! I'm 35 and about to embark on a new journey; going to uni to study nursing. I haven't wrote an essay since school, and obviously they weren't university standard. I've been worrying about whether I could manage the academic essay writing, but after reading this book which breaks it down into easy steps, I can't wait to get stuck in. I can't thank the author enough for writing this book, he has taken away all my anxiety about essays and now I'm confident that I'll do great!
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