Good writing skills and habits are critical for scholarly success. Every article is a story, and employing the techniques of effective storytelling enhances scholars’ abilities to share their insights and ideas, increasing the impact of their research. This book draws on the tools and techniques of storytelling employed in fiction and non-fiction writing to help academic writer...(展开全部)

Richard A. ("Red") Watson has published fiction, general nonfiction, and scholarly books. His essay "On the Zeedijk," about Descartes in Holland and first published in "The Georgia Review, "was the lead essay in "The Pushcart Prize XV, 1990-1991: Best of the Small Presses. "Red knows writing.He also knows academe and has written "Writing Philosophy "as a kind of survival manual...(展开全部)

'A comprehensive, well-written and beautifully organized book on publishing articles in the humanities and social sciences that will help its readers write forward with a first-rate guide as good company' - Joan Bolker, author of "Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day". 'Humorous, direct, authentic ! a seamless weave of experience, anecdote, and research' - Kathlee...(展开全部)

'A comprehensive, well-written and beautifully organized book on publishing articles in the humanities and social sciences that will help its readers write forward with a first-rate guide as good company' - Joan Bolker, author of "Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day". 'Humorous, direct, authentic ! a seamless weave of experience, anecdote, and research' - Kathlee...(展开全部)

If you want people to read your writing, it has to be readable. In How to Write Well and Why We Must, Leonard Cassuto offers academic writers a direct, practical prescription for writing that will be read and understood: Take care of your reader. With a wealth of examples from the arts and sciences, this short, witty book provides invaluable advice to writers at all levels, in ...(展开全部)

Introduction to Academic Writing helps students to master the standard organisational patterns of the paragraph and the basic concepts of essay writing. It integrates the study of rhetorical patterns and the writing process with extensive practice in sentence structure and mechanics. CriterionSM Publisher's Version, available with levels 3, provides instant online feedback o...(展开全部)

Jane K. Cleland is the author of the best-selling and multiple award-wining Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries (St. Martin's Minotaur). Jane also writes short stories (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine) and articles and books about the craft of writing (Writer's Digest magazine and Writer's Digest Books), including the bestselling and Agatha-winning book, Mastering Suspense, Str...(展开全部)

Whatever your reason for writing, Peter Elbow has a "recipe" to guide you. A longtime proponent of "freewriting" (writing without stopping, for a preset amount of time), Elbow incorporates its use in a variety of ways. Have a limited amount of time? Spend half of it freewriting and half of it cleaning up your prose. Got all the time in the world (and only a vague sense of what ...(展开全部)