Book For Higher Education English Course Provides Writing Strategies For Student Success

Dr. Erin Laverick’s book, Learning to Write for Academic Success in Undergraduate and Graduate Schools, provides a roadmap for students to follow to achieve success in higher education English courses. 

English language instructors will find the textbook user-friendly in regards to planning their daily lessons because it includes useful activities that can easily be completed in a traditional fifty-minute class period. 

This book helps students to write a wide range of writing assignments, from article reviews and literature reviews to annotated bibliographies, and argumentative research papers.

“Using the writing process and the graphic organizers provided in the textbook, students are taken step-by-step through the process of writing different genres of essays,” Dr. Laverick says. “With a heavy research component, reading strategies are also included, so students can best learn how to read academic writing and implement it into their research writing."

This is a versatile text that gives an English instructor the flexibility to serve a wide range of students. 

Dr. Laverick is the Assistant Vice President of Academics at Concordia University in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At the time the book was published, Dr. Laverick was an associate professor of English as an International Language at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio. She was a specialist in second language writing acquisition and taught composition courses for non-native speakers. 

Dr. Laverick was also the Director of the Intensive English Language Program (IELP) at the university. She worked closely with the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages graduate assistants and trained them to tutor IELP and undergraduate students. In addition, Dr. Laverick mentored graduate assistants who taught IELP classes.   

The book, Learning to Write for Academic Success in Undergraduate and Graduate Schools is published by Robbie Dean Press, a traditional publishing company and parent company to MarketingNewAuthors.com, both of which are based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

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