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

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 writers 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.