Full Description
Good writing skills and habits are critical for scholarly success. Every article is a story, and employing effective storytelling techniques enhances scholars' abilities to share their insights and ideas, increasing the impact of their research.
In this timely second edition, Tim Pollock draws on fiction and non-fiction writing tools and techniques to help academic authors enhance the clarity, presentation and flow of their scholarly work. With new chapters focusing on the intricacies of writing developmental reviews and dissertations, the second edition of How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing provides comprehensive discussions illustrating the structural and stylistic factors involved in effective storytelling and how to apply them in writing each section of an academic article. The second edition also expands on important topics such as managing the co-authoring, writing and review processes.
This book is an invaluable resource for academics across business disciplines, particularly those in management-related sectors such as organizational behavior, organization theory, business and management history and corporate governance. It is also useful to those in adjacent social science disciplines such as sociology, psychology and economics.
Contents
Contents
About the author
Preface to the second edition
1 Introduction: think like a storyteller
2 Structuring a story
3 Storytelling tools
4 The building blocks of storytelling: words, sentences and
paragraphs
5 Introductions, titles and abstracts
6 Theory and hypotheses
7 Methods and results
8 Discussion section
9 What's different about qualitative articles, theory articles
and book chapters
10 The writing process
11 The co-authoring process
12 Navigating the review process
13 Writing developmental reviews
14 Writing a dissertation
15 Other kinds of writing
16 Conclusion
References
Index
