Full Description
Responding to the trend of formulaic writing in the academic community, How To Write Differently offers a refreshing approach to academic writing in a practical format.
The book explores how, in order to write differently, an author needs to embrace complexity and alterity and write to be read. Highlighting the importance of bringing joy and enlightenment to readers rather than simply writing for the metrics, experienced contributors delve into the significance of poetry and idiom, writing from the heart and what to write about. Chapters also consider key practicalities such as, how to make an argument and not slide into reductionism? How to engage with literature without being dull and formulaic? How to describe important issues such as empirical research and insights? Finally, the book sheds light on the review process, where to publish, reflective referencing and how to revise your writing.
Aiming to inspire academic writers and readers, while offering practical guidance, How to Write Differently will be a valuable resource for business and management researchers and students seeking to write in a new way.
Contents
Contents:
Yiannis Gabriel: Foreword xiii
Introduction 1
Monika Kostera
1 Resolving the ambivalences of editing a journal 9
Arndt Sorge
2 What to write about? The parable of Diogenes 17
Jerzy Kociatkiewicz
3 Writing the personal 22
Ilaria Boncori
4 Literary machines and subjective narrators 34
Piotr Graczyk
5 Stories from the field and from the heart 44
Sara Persson
6 Making connections through poetry: A showering of words
that matter 54
Matilda Dahl and Jenny Helin
7 Untranslatable management, or the choice of idiom 67
Ghislain Deslandes
8 Art and social science: Anger, reflections, and possibilities 80
Terrence Letiche and Hugo Letiche
9 Caring reviews 88
Monika Kostera
10 Rethinking revisions: The art of devision 99
Daniel Ericsson
11 On reflective referencing 109
Barbara Czarniawska
12 Writing to be read, not for the stars 120
Joanna Średnicka
13 Reducing reductionism, halting holism - some reflections
on writing for humans 129
Michał Izak
14 Where to publish and not perish? 138
Martyna Śliwa
15 How to be a good editor - ten (very personal) commandments 147
Annette Risberg
16 'If you have any doubts, go to a library' 149
Tytus Olszewski
Index
