LibGuides: ESSL 290: Health Care in America (Milestone Course): Writing Resources

Writing Resources for ESSL 290: Health Care in America

Book Review Handout (UNC Writing Center)
This handout will help you write a book review, a report or essay that offers a critical perspective on a text. It offers a process and suggests some strategies for writing book reviews.
Editing & Proofreading Handout (UNC Writing Center)
This handout provides some tips and strategies for revising your writing. To give you a chance to practice proofreading, we have left seven errors (three spelling errors, two punctuation errors, and two grammatical errors) in the text of this handout. See if you can spot them!
College Writing Handout (UNC Writing Center)
This handout will help you figure out what your college instructors expect when they give you a writing assignment. It will tell you how and why to move beyond the five-paragraph themes you learned to write in high school and start writing essays that are more analytical and more flexible.

Remember: Your book for the book review must be at least 200 pages.

Remember: Your book review must be 4-5 pages long.

TIPS:

take notes while reading: what's interesting? why?
job down important arguments or quotations (and their page #s!)
you want to summarize AND evaluate the book
outline! intro + purpose + organization + summary + sources/process + issues in health care + conclusion

Book Review Handout PDF (UNC Writing Center)
This handout will help you write a book review, a report or essay that offers a critical perspective on a text. It offers a process and suggests some strategies for writing book reviews.
Editing & Proofreading (UNC Writing Center Handout)
This handout provides some tips and strategies for revising your writing. To give you a chance to practice proofreading, we have left seven errors (three spelling errors, two punctuation errors, and two grammatical errors) in the text of this handout. See if you can spot them!
College Writing (UNC Writing Center Handout)
This handout will help you figure out what your college instructors expect when they give you a writing assignment. It will tell you how and why to move beyond the five-paragraph themes you learned to write in high school and start writing essays that are more analytical and more flexible.