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

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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.