The Quick Fix Guide to Academic Writing

How to Avoid Big Mistakes and Small Errors

Phillip C Shon author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd

Published:30th Nov '17

Should be back in stock very soon

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The Quick Fix Guide to Academic Writing cover

Whether you’re writing a paper, essay, assignment, or dissertation, this short and punchy book helps you improve your writing skills through minimal effort.

Providing you with a quick set of writing rules to follow, this tried and tested guide uses a unique and easy to follow grid-based system.  Packed with advice on understanding (big and little) common errors made in academic writing, it helps you identify patterns in your own writing and demonstrates how to reshape or re-evaluate them - and raise your writing game in any academic context. 

How-to tutorials include:

  • Synthesizing and critiquing literature – and using your coding sheet to develop critical arguments 
  • Shaping abstracts, introductions, discussions, and conclusions – to improve the logic and structure of your writing
  • Applying lessons-learned to future projects, whatever format of academic writing.

Save time and improve your grades, with this essential quick fix guide!


The Student Success series are essential guides for students of all levels. From how to think critically and write great essays to planning your dream career, the Student Success series helps you study smarter and get the best from your time at university.

At last! A text that supplies the student with specific tools for the specific requirements for reading and writing in the social sciences.
-- Joseph Finnerty

This book incorporates a unique framework through which students in social science programmes can make sense of the academic expectations surrounding reading and writing in their courses.  Explained in a clear and logical manner, this framework is strongly linked to the learning needs of the student—the more I read, the more I want to try it. 

-- Mark Gillespie
This book provides a readable guide to structuring academic writing with the benefit of annotated reading. It is written with humour and a "pulling no punches" style. 
-- Joanna Nichols
This is an excellent book that provides clear advice not only on how to read, but also how to write academically and will be useful to undergraduate and masters students alike. The codes and the way that information is presented is reader friendly – the book can be used as a reference book or read cover to cover. I suspect for many people it will be both.  -- Pete Allison
This is an easy to read book with a valuable insight into the structure and content of academic writing...I certainly found it valuable in developing my ability to write particular sections of social science papers. And, as a marker, the ‘big’ and ‘small’ errors code sheets enabled me to provide a more detailed feedback to students. -- Caroline Ford

ISBN: 9781526405890

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 290g

152 pages