The Work Of Writing Insights Strategies For Academics Professionals

Download or read book The Work of Writing written by Elizabeth Rankin and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2001-08-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional and academic writing is often seen as dull, dry, and as boring to write as it is to read. In The Work of Writing, Rankin challenges these assumptions by encouraging the professional writer to develop a strong writing voice and become fully engaged with the writing process, thus producing written work that is lively and engaging. This book will give academic practitioners and other professionals critical help in determining what to write, how to write it, and how to position their written works succesfully for the markets they wish to reach. Rather than a style manual, The Work of Writing focuses on the thinking, strategizing, and decision making that goes on in the heads of academic and professional writers. In doing so, it deals with the complex issues of purpose, audience, genre, and voice that all writers face. Drawing on collective experience of academic and professional readers as well as writers, Rankin offers a framework to help writers think about their writing in realistic, practical, and productive ways. The book offers specific examples and "real-life" scenarios that are familiar to all academic writers--and by extension, to practicing professionals as well.

Download or read book The Handbook Of Academic Writing: A Fresh Approach written by Murray, Rowena and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing is one of the most demanding tasks that academics and researchers face. In some disciplines we learn some of what we need to know to be productive, successful writers; but in other disciplines there is no training, support or mentoring of any kind.

Download or read book Writing For Academic Purpose written by Eny Maulita Purnama Sari, S.Pd.I., M.Pd. and published by Myria Publisher. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handout can be one of instructional textbooks used in the teaching of writing of English in Indonesia. It aims to provide a framework for teaching and learning English based on blended learning. All three chapters allow the students to practice academic writing by blended learning in e-learning system which help them to develop their academic writing skills. By having this skill, they can construct and establish academic writing correctly. It also enables them to study genre autonomously. The strengths of this handout such as effectiveness of using blended learning in the writing for academic subject, autonomous learning, and practice make a better academic writing. Then, this handout was developed based on the students’ need. In this handout, students not only found genre but also found characteristics, ways, and the rules of language in academic writing. Here, the writers would like to thanks to validators and students who give inputs and suggestions in improving the process of developing materials and models.

Download or read book Writing Programs Worldwide written by Chris Thaiss and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WRITING PROGRAMS WORLDWIDE offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs. The authors of its program profiles show how innovators at a diverse range of universities on six continents have dealt creatively over many years with day-to-day and long-range issues affecting how students across disciplines and languages grow as communicators and learners.

Download or read book Write No Matter What written by Joli Jensen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to fulfill their writing goals. A finished book—or even steady journal articles—may seem like an impossible dream. But, as Joli Jensen proves, it really is possible to write happily and productively in academe. Jensen begins by busting the myth that universities are supportive writing environments. She points out that academia, an arena dedicated to scholarship, offers pressures that actually prevent scholarly writing. She shows how to acknowledge these less-than-ideal conditions, and how to keep these circumstances from draining writing time and energy. 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. Write No Matter What draws on popular and scholarly insights into the writing process and stems from Jensen’s experience designing and directing a faculty writing program. With more than three decades as an academic writer, Jensen knows what really helps and hinders the scholarly writing process for scholars in the humanities, social sciences,and sciences. Cut down the academic sword of Damocles, Jensen advises. Learn how to write often and effectively, without pressure or shame. With her encouragement, writers of all levels will find ways to create the writing support they need and deserve.

Download or read book Teaching Academic Writing as a Discipline-Specific Skill in Higher Education written by Ezza, El-Sadig Y. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now held that writing influences and is influenced by the discipline where it occurs. The representations that writers employ to produce and comprehend texts are said to be sensitive to the specificities of their disciplinary discourse communities. This exposes writers to divergent disciplinary demands and expectations on what counts as good and appropriate writing in terms of generic structure, discourse features, and stylistic preferences, reflecting dissimilar practices. Because of such exigencies, academic writing seems at times to be very challenging, especially for novice scholars. Thus, any attempt to perceive the function of academic writing in higher education or to evaluate its quality should not discard the shaping force of the disciplines. Teaching Academic Writing as a Discipline-Specific Skill in Higher Education is a critical scholarly resource that examines the role of writing within academic circles and the disciplinary practices of writing in scholastic environments. The book will also explore the particular difficulties that confront writers in the disciplines as well as the endeavors of educational institutions to develop discipline-specific writing traditions among practicing and novice scholars. Featuring a range of topics such as blended learning, data interpretation, and knowledge construction, this book is essential for instructors, academicians, administrators, professors, researchers, and students.

Download or read book Doing Academic Writing in Education written by Janet C. Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guides educators who are or will be engaged in a variety of academic writing tasks through the writing process with emphasis on connecting professional writing and the personal self.