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E-grāmata: Academic Writer's Toolkit: A Users Manual [Taylor & Francis e-book]

(San Francisco State University, USA)
  • Formāts: 176 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2008
  • Izdevniecība: Left Coast Press Inc
  • ISBN-13: 9781315419336
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  • Formāts: 176 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2008
  • Izdevniecība: Left Coast Press Inc
  • ISBN-13: 9781315419336
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Berger’s slim, user-friendly volume on academic writing is a gift to linguistically-stressed academics. Author of 60 published books, the author speaks to junior scholars and graduate students about the process and products of academic writing. He differentiates between business writing skills for memos, proposals, and reports, and the scholarly writing that occurs in journals and books. He has suggestions for getting the ?turgid” out of turgid academic prose and offers suggestions on how to best structure various forms of documents for effective communication. Written in Berger’s friendly, personal style, he shows by example that academics can write good, readable prose in a variety of genres.


Written in Berger’s friendly, personal style, he shows by example that academics can write good, readable prose in a variety of genres.
Acknowledgments ix
INTRODUCTION: Mission Impossible? 1
Not an Impossible Task
2
On the Power of Language: Jan Morris on India
3
Learning from Narratives
5
The Importance of Humor: A Zen Writing Book
5
Has Everything I've Written Really Been Fiction?
6
Writing Myself into Existence
8
PART I: THE WRITING PROCESS
CHAPTER 1: The Academic Writer's Toolkit
13
Defining Academic Writing
14
Two Examples of Academic Writing
16
What Communication Theory Can Teach Us about Writing
17
On Audience
19
Writing for Your Readers and Yourself
20
Talk Is Cheap
20
CHAPTER 2: The Writing Process: Ideas and Research
23
The Writer's Need for Confidence
24
The Writer's Need for Ideas
24
The Value of Keeping a Journal
25
On the Usefulness of Journals: A Case History
26
The Importance of Research
29
CHAPTER 3: The Writing Process: Outlining, Drafting, and Revising
35
The Art of the Outline
36
Writing a First Draft
37
Revise Your First Drafts on Hard Copy (Printouts)
39
The Art of the Revision
40
CHAPTER 4: On Structure and Style
43
Le Mot Juste (The Exact Word)
44
The Thesis Statement
46
The Structure and Function of Paragraphs
47
Using Transitions
49
Using Subheads
50
There Are Many Different Styles You Can Use
50
Making Your Writing More Accessible
52
Developing Your Personal Voice
58
CHAPTER 5: Composing Strategies
61
Clarifying Ideas
62
Presenting Information
64
Using Language Creatively but Not Deceptively
68
PART II: GENRES OF ACADEMIC WRITING
CHAPTER 6: Writing Effective Memos
75
Defining Memos
76
A Sample Memo
77
Typical Subjects for Memos
78
Cautions for Memo Writers
80
CHAPTER 7: The Art of the Academic Letter
83
Defining Letters
84
The Basic Components of Letters
84
Letter Formats
86
Common Kinds of Academic Letters
88
CHAPTER 8: Readable Reports
93
Defining ing Reports
94
Elements Found in Reports
94
Writing Reports
96
A Sample Report
98
Final Thoughts on Writing Reports
100
CHAPTER 9: Proposals That Persuade
103
Elements in a Proposal
104
A Sample Proposal
105
The Art of Persuasive Writing
106
Basic Techniques of Persuasion
107
Overcoming Resistance in Reluctant Decision Makers
109
CHAPTER 10: Writing a Journal Article
111
Writing for Scholarly Journals
112
Planning and Writing Your Article
113
Samples from an Article
115
Formatting Your Article
116
Submitting (and Resubmitting) Your Work
117
Reviewing Books for Journals
119
Writing for Nonacademic Publications
119
CHAPTER 11: Writing an Academic Book
121
Deciding Which Kind of Book to Write
122
Write the Book before the Query!
123
Writing Queries That Will Interest Editors
124
Writing a Convincing Book Proposal
126
A Sample from a Book Proposal
128
Formatting Your Manuscript
132
Handling Rejection without Depression
133
The Production Process
134
Making an Index
138
Print-on-Demand Publishing
138
CHAPTER 12: Notes on Other Writing Genres
141
A Primer on E-mailed Messages
142
Cautionary Notes about E-mail Messages
142
Faxes
144
Conference Papers
145
Theses and Dissertations
146
The Writer's Life
147
Coda 149
Publishing as a Form of Personal Validation
150
Writing as an Act of Discovery
151
The Pleasure of the Text
152
Writing as Conversation
153
Further Resources 155
Bibliography 158
Index 161
About the Author 165
Arthur Asa Berger is professor emeritus in the department of broadcast communication Arts at San Francisco State University. He is author of 60 books on media, popular culture, visual culture, and writing. He has authored textbooks, scholarly works, practical manuals and a series of teaching novels for classroom use.
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