The elements of academic style : writing for the humanities / Eric Hayot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayot, Eric, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

English language.

Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Academic writing.

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher).

Humanities.

Critical thinking--Study and teaching (Higher).

Critical thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and developing productive and rewarding writing habits, Hayot helps ambitious students, newly minted Ph.D.'s, and established professors shape their work and develop their voices.Hayot does more than explain the techniques of academic writing. He aims to adjust the writer's perspective, encouraging scholars to think of themselves as makers and doers of important work. Scholarly writing can be frustrating and exhausting, yet also satisfying and crucial, and Hayot weaves these experiences, including his own trials and tribulations, into an ethos for scholars to draw on as they write. Combining psychological support with practical suggestions for composing introductions and conclusions, developing a schedule for writing, using notes and citations, and structuring paragraphs and essays, this guide to the elements of academic style does its part to rejuvenate scholarship and writing in the humanities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

One. Why Read This Book?

Part I. Writing as Practice

Two. Unlearning What You (Probably) Know

Three. Eight Strategies for Getting Writing Done

Four. Institutional Contexts

Five. Dissertations and Books

Six. A Materialist Theory of Writing

Seven. How Do Readers Work?

Part II. Strategy

Eight. The Uneven U

Nine. Structure and Subordination

Ten. Structural Rhythm

Eleven. Introductions

Twelve. Don't Say It All Early

Thirteen. Paragraphing

Fourteen. Three Types of Transitions

Fifteen. Showing your iceberg

Sixteen. Metalanguage

Seventeen. Ending Well

Eighteen. Titles and Subtitles

Part III. Tactics

Nineteen. Citational Practice

Twenty. Conference Talks

Twenty-one. Examples

Twenty-two. Figural Language

Twenty-three. Footnotes and Endnotes

Twenty-four. Jargon

Twenty-five. Parentheticals

Twenty-six. Pronouns

Twenty-seven. Repetition

Twenty-eight. Rhetorical Questions and Clauses

Twenty-nine. Sentence rhythm

Thirty. Ventilation

Thirty-one. Weight

Part IV. Becoming

Thirty-two. Work as Process

Thirty-three. Becoming a Writer

Thirty-four. From the Workshop to the World (as Workshop [as World])

Thirty-five. Acknowledgments

Appendix. A Writer's Workbook

Works Cited

Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231537414

0231537417

OCLC:

1013948465