Academic Writing from Sentence to Essay: A Reference Guide

Students' negative attitude toward writing affects them and prevents them from writing effectively. This book emphasizes the idea that writing is a learned skill that can be honed by practice. The book aims at improving students' writing skills. It tackles writing skills starting from simple sentences to essays. The main focus is sentence structure as it is the essence of writing. It also differentiates between two approaches of writing: process writing and product writing giving examples and exercises on each type. However, it suggests integrating both methods to produce effective writing. Thus, the goal of this book is to change students' attitude toward writing and support them with the needed skills in order to produce effective sentences, paragraphs and essays.