Offer guidance on what information should be included in all manuscript sections for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research and include how to best discuss race, ethnicity, and culture.
Outlines the writing process and provides suggestions for getting the "turgid" out of turgid academic prose. Offers suggestions on how to best structure various forms of documents, such as journal articles, academic books, proposals, reports, academic letters, memos, and more.
Offers academic writers a direct, practical prescription for writing that will be read and understood, including advice on how to sharpen arguments and make complex ideas compelling, as well as the workings of introductions & conclusions, transitions, signposts, paragraphs, and sentences.
Helps scholars uncover their unique writing process and design a writing practice that fits how they work. Includes techniques for overcoming writing barriers.
Guides academics through the process of peer reviewing manuscript articles, outlining the methods and proficiencies required to write a high-quality review.
This book draws on the tools and techniques of storytelling employed in fiction and non-fiction writing to help academic writers enhance the clarity, presentation, and flow of their scholarly work.
Jensen introduces tools and techniques that encourage frequent, low-stress writing. She points out common ways writers stall and offers workarounds that maintain productivity. Her focus is not on content, but on how to overcome whatever stands in the way of academic writing.
Combines research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to explore intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality.
Blair's practical book gives graduate students the tools they need to successfully plan, write, and defend their thesis or dissertation. Each chapter addresses a rite of passage common to most graduate programs: selecting a methodology, conducting a literature search, carrying out research, analyzing data, and preparing for a thesis defense.
Offers advice on steps in the process of producing a dissertation such as conceptualizing a topic, developing a pre-proposal, writing a literature review, writing a proposal, collecting and analyzing data, and writing the last chapter.
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