Writing for Scholars
A Practical Guide to Making Sense & Being Heard
Lynn Nygaard
- 232 pages
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Writing for Scholars
A Practical Guide to Making Sense & Being Heard
Lynn Nygaard
About This Book
Academics are not just researchers, but writers too. Using her many years of practical experience gained as a teacher and editor, Lynn Nygaard guides you through the whole process of writing and presenting your research in order to help you make your voice heard within the academic community. Grounded in real world advice rather than abstract best practice, Nygaard demonstrates a number of approaches to writing in order to help you identify those most suited to your own project.
This updated new edition includes:
- Revised and expanded sections in each chapter
- More focus on the social sciences
- A more international focus
- Updated discussions on publishing practices
- Annotated biographies for each chapter
- New illustrations and images
- Additional practical tips and exercises
From defining your audience, to forming your argument and structuring your work, this book will enable you to communicate your research passionately and professionally. Lynn Nygaard is Special Adviser on Project Development and Publications at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
This updated new edition includes:
- Revised and expanded sections in each chapter
- More focus on the social sciences
- A moreinternational focus
- Updated discussions on publishing practices
- Annotated bibliographies for each chapter
- New illustrations and images
- Additional practical tips and exercises
From defining your audience, to forming your argument and structuring your work, this book will enable you to communicate your research passionately and professionally.
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Index
- abstracts, 103ā104
- academic discourse. See scholarly dialogue (academic discourse)
- academic journals, 4ā5, 69ā77, 69. See also author guidelines; peer review
- academic publishing, 4. See also peer review
- academic quality, 10, 11ā12
- actio, 163
- active listening, 152ā153
- active reading, 150ā151
- analytical research questions, 84
- anthropomorphism, 52ā53
- APA authorādate system, 193
- applied research, 9, 207
- argument
- in presentations, 166ā169
- in multiple arguments, 93ā94
- scholarly argument and rhetoric, 54ā56
- argumentatio (argument), 56
- assumptions, 56, 62ā69
- audience
- academic journals as, 69ā77, 69
- as hostile, 62, 65ā69, 208
- introduction and, 106
- knowledge dimension and, 61ā62
- presentations and, 163ā165
- scholarly dialogue and, 3ā4
- titles and, 124ā125
- types of, 1ā2, 59ā61, 61
- value dimension and, 62ā65, 66ā67
- authorādate system (Harvard, APA), 193
- author guidelines
- checklist for, 200
- copy-editors and, 198ā200
- on formatting, 188ā189
- house styles and, 189ā191
- role and importance of, 72, 185ā187, 196ā197
- submission process and, 200ā201
- on word limits, 187ā188
- See also references
- background
- in classical rhetoric, 55
- in introduction, 104ā108
- in presentation, 171
- level of detai...