The Academic Writer's Toolkit: A User’s ManualBerger’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. |
Contents
The Academic Writers Toolkit | |
On Audience | |
The Writers Need for Ideas | |
The Writing Process Outlining Drafting | |
Revise Your First Drafts on Hard Copy Printouts | |
Le Mot Juste The Exact Word | |
GENRES OF ACADEMIC WRITING | |
Cautions for Memo Writers | |
Common Kinds of Academic Letters | |
Readable Reports | |
Elements Found in Reports | |
Basic Techniques of Persuasion | |
Reviewing Books for Journals | |
Formatting Your Manuscript | |
Using Transitions | |
Developing Your Personal Voice | |
Using Language Creativelybut Not Deceptively | |
Faxes | |
Writing as Conversation | |
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