The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplines
The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplines by Charles Bazerman
English | 1994 | ISBN-10: 0395687233 | ISBN-13: 9780395687239 | PDF | 293 pages | 6 Mb
English | 1994 | ISBN-10: 0395687233 | ISBN-13: 9780395687239 | PDF | 293 pages | 6 Mb
Bazerman's The Informed Writer teaches students to formulate original arguments through fourteen different kinds of writing activities, ranging from brief summaries to full-scale research papers.
Students are encouraged to explore the close connection between writing and reading, as well as the social context for their writing. Student writing examples and two complete research papers model both MLA and APA styles.
The book is a textbook designed for college students. It contains many exercises and there are many text examples in the book, which are fine given its purpose. This review is written from the perspective of library and information science (LIS), which is about the utilization of information sources. In the new electronic environment the traditional role of LIS is weakened, and many find that one way of survival for libraries is to teach information seeking and use. That is one reason I find this book important also for the LIS profession: It is basically about how writers should seek and use information.
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