Academic Writing III

About this curriculum

This is the writing book in Level 7 of the MCT language arts curriculum. Advanced Academic Writing III not only requires longer, more complex, and more deeply documented papers of students than Volumes I and II; it also provides an exploration of intellectually advanced attitudes and understandings that differentiate the most mature and outstanding students, teaching students the excitement of aggressive research and the pleasure of participating in a scholarly tradition that has ennobled research for centuries. This volume focuses on achieving unity in style and originality in content. It contains more elaborate MLA formatting rules, more proofreaders’ marks, and forty more actual research paper comments, for a total of 120 comments for the students to absorb into their understanding of what makes a paper good and what to avoid to write well. The appendix includes an extensive list of punctuation, grammar, and usage rules and a list of common errors, all of which include and expand upon the content in the first two volumes in the series. Students who complete Vol…