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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973468303321

Autore

Berger Arthur Asa <1933->

Titolo

The academic writer's toolkit : a user's manual / / Arthur Asa Berger ; illustrated by the author

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walnut Creek, Calif., : Left Coast Press, c2008

ISBN

1-315-41931-9

1-59874-763-0

1-315-41932-7

1-315-41933-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

808/.042

808.02

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric

Report writing

Academic writing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-160) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Mission Impossible?; PART I: THE WRITING PROCESS; CHAPTER 1: The Academic Writer's Toolkit; CHAPTER 2: The Writing Process: Ideas and Research; CHAPTER 3: The Writing Process: Outlining, Drafting, and Revising; 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 GenresCoda; Further Resources; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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.