1st Edition

The Academic Writer's Toolkit A User’s Manual

By Arthur Asa Berger Copyright 2008
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Introduction; Part I The Writing Process; Chapter 1 The Academic Writer’s Toolkit; Chapter 2 The Writing Process; Chapter 3 The Writing Process; 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 Genres; coda Coda;

Biography

Arthur Asa Berger