Full Description
Academic Writing has been widely acclaimed in all its editions as a superb textbook—and an important contribution to the pedagogy of introducing students to the conventions of academic writing. The book seeks to introduce student readers to the lively community of research and writing beyond the classroom, with its complex interactions, values, and goals. It presents writing from a range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, cultivating students' awareness of the subtle differences in genre.
This new edition has been revised throughout and contains many new exercises, updated examples, a new section on research proposals, and wider disciplinary coverage. The organization of the book has also been revised to better fit with the timeline of most teaching terms.
Contents
Preface
Introducing Genre
Hearing Voices
Hearing Genres
High-School vs. University Writing
The University as Research Institution
Citation and Summary
Introducing Scholarly Citation
Is Citation Unique to Scholarly Writing?
Why Do Scholars Use Citation?
Summary
Noting for Gist
Recording Levels
Using Gist and Levels of Generality to Write Summary
Establishing the Summarizer's Position
Reporting Reporting
Experts and Non-Experts
Challenging Situations for Summarizers
High-Level Passages
Low-Level Passages
Summarizing Narrative
Readers Reading I
Who Do You Think You're Talking To?
Traditions of Commentary on Student Writing
An Alternative to Traditional Commentary:
The Think-Aloud Protocol
Adapting the Think-Aloud Protocol in the Writing Classroom
Reading on Behalf of Others
Reliability of Readers
Presupposing vs. Asserting
Orchestrating Voices
Making Speakers Visible: Writing as Conversation
Orchestrating Scholarly Voices
The Challenges of Non-Scholarly Voices
Orchestrating Academic Textbooks and Popular Writing
The Internet
Research Proposals
Definition
Dictionaries
Appositions
Sustained Definitions
The Social Profile of Abstractions and Their Different Roles in Different Disciplines
Introductions
Generalization and Citation
Reported Speech
Documentation
State of Knowledge and the Knowledge Deficit
Student Versions of the Knowledge Deficit
Readers Reading II
Think-Aloud and Genre Theory
The Mental Desktop
Scholarly Styles I: Nominal Style
Common and Uncommon Sense
Is Scholarly Writing Unnecessarily Complicated, Exclusionary, or Elitist?
Nominal Style: Syntactic Density
Nominal Style: Ambiguity
Sentence Style and Textual Coherence
Scholarly Styles II: Messages about the Argument
Messages about the Argument
The Discursive I
Forecasts
Emphasis
Making and Maintaining Knowledge I
Making Knowledge
Method Sections
Qualitative Method and Subject Position
Making and Maintaining Knowledge II
Modality
Other Markers of the Status of Knowledge
Tense and the Story of Research
Conclusions and the Moral Compass of the Disciplines
Conclusions
The Moral Compass of the Disciplines:
Research Ethics
The Moral Compass of the Disciplines:
Moral Statements
Glossary
References
Subject Index
Index of Researchers Cited
