Joel Joos

The Essential Essay Experience Joel Joos

Formal writing can be a daunting task, made all the more difficult by the specific structures and conventions of academia. This textbook aims to help students with the writing tasks that face them. Useful for both non-native speakers of English and native speakers, this textbook will take readers from the basics of paragraph form and transitions through to full essays, dissertations, research reports, and more. This textbook contains a number of model essays, exercises, explanations, and useful phrases, each of which builds upon the other to help guide students along the path to improved composition. If writing is a skill that must be practiced - and it is - then this textbook will provide all the coaching needed. Andrew Oberg and Joël Joos are professors in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Kochi, Japan. Combined they have more than forty years of experience teaching writing, academic, and linguistic skills.