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The academic writer's toolkit : a user's manual / Arthur Asa Berger ; illustrated by the author.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- English language.
- Report writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Report writing.
- Academic writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Academic writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-160) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-41931-9
- 1-59874-763-0
- 1-315-41932-7
- 1-315-41933-5
- 9781315419336
- OCLC:
- 711747341
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