The Academic Writer's Toolkit: A User's Manual / Edition 1

by Arthur Asa Berger

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598741391
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/01/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I The Writing Process; Chapter 1 The Academic Writer’s Toolkit; Chapter 2 The Writing Process; Chapter 3 The Writing Process; Chapter 4 On Structure and Style; Chapter 5 Composing Strategies; Part II Genres of Academic Writing; Chapter 6 Writing Effective Memos; Chapter 7 The Art of the Academic Letter; Chapter 8 Readable Reports; Chapter 9 Proposals That Persuade; Chapter 10 Writing a Journal Article; Chapter 11 Writing an Academic Book; Chapter 12 Notes on Other Writing Genres; coda Coda;

Editorial Reviews

An excellent how-to guide for anyone wanting clarification on what the expectations are for writing within different academic genres or advice on getting started on a writing project.

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