The Counterintuitive Writer: A Guide to Writing for Students ... and for Others - Paperback

by Joan Flaherty (Author)

The Counterintuitive Writer takes a new perspective on academic writing, encouraging readers to follow the road "less travelled" as they figure out what they want to write and how to write it.

Using easy-to-understand examples, practical exercises, and innovative approaches that apply to various types of writing, this text guides the reader on how to:

- Overcome writer's block
- Develop a focused topic
- Organize essays, reports and research papers
- Apply the principle of "predictable structure and unpredictable content" to capture - and hold - readers' attention
- Craft a compelling introduction and conclusion
- Write concise, coherent paragraphs
- Summarize key points; and
- Avoid common writing pitfalls, including logical fallacies, unintentional plagiarism, and grammatical errors.