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The elements of academic style : writing for the humanities /
"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 w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why read this book?
- Part I. Writing as practice. Unlearning what you (probably) know
- Eight strategies for getting writing done
- Institutional contexts
- Dissertations and books
- A materialist theory of writing
- How do readers work?
- Part II. Strategy. The uneven U
- Structure and subordination
- Structural rhythm
- Introductions
- Don't say it all early
- Paragraphing
- Three types of transitions
- Showing your iceberg
- Metalanguage
- Ending well
- Titles and subtitles
- Part III. Tactics. Citational practice
- Conference talks
- Examples
- Figural language
- Footnotes and endnotes
- Jargon
- Parentheticals
- Pronouns
- Repetition
- Rhetorical questions and clauses
- Sentence rhythm
- Ventilation
- Weight
- Part IV. Becoming. Work as process
- Becoming a writer
- From the workshop to the world (as workshop [as world]).