The Work of Writing
The Work of Writing

Author: Elizabeth Rankin

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 2001-08-06

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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Professional and academic writing is often seen as dull, dry, and as boring to write as it is to read. In The Work of Writing, Rankin challenges these assumptions by encouraging the professional writer to develop a strong writing voice and become fully engaged with the writing process, thus producing written work that is lively and engaging. This book will give academic practitioners and other professionals critical help in determining what to write, how to write it, and how to position their written works succesfully for the markets they wish to reach. Rather than a style manual, The Work of Writing focuses on the thinking, strategizing, and decision making that goes on in the heads of academic and professional writers. In doing so, it deals with the complex issues of purpose, audience, genre, and voice that all writers face. Drawing on collective experience of academic and professional readers as well as writers, Rankin offers a framework to help writers think about their writing in realistic, practical, and productive ways. The book offers specific examples and "real-life" scenarios that are familiar to all academic writers--and by extension, to practicing professionals as well.

The Handbook Of Academic Writing: A Fresh Approach
The Handbook Of Academic Writing: A Fresh Approach

Author: Murray, Rowena

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2006-10-01

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0335219330

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Writing is one of the most demanding tasks that academics and researchers face. In some disciplines we learn some of what we need to know to be productive, successful writers; but in other disciplines there is no training, support or mentoring of any kind.

The Work of Writing
The Work of Writing

Author: Elizabeth Rankin

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Professional and academic writing is often seen as dull, dry, and as boring to write as it is to read. In The Work of Writing, Rankin challenges these assumptions by encouraging the professional writer to develop a strong writing voice and become fully engaged with the writing process, thus producing written work that is lively and engaging. This book will give academic practitioners and other professionals critical help in determining what to write, how to write it, and how to position their written works succesfully for the markets they wish to reach. Rather than a style manual, The Work of Writing focuses on the thinking, strategizing, and decision making that goes on in the heads of academic and professional writers. In doing so, it deals with the complex issues of purpose, audience, genre, and voice that all writers face. Drawing on collective experience of academic and professional readers as well as writers, Rankin offers a framework to help writers think about their writing in realistic, practical, and productive ways. The book offers specific examples and "real-life" scenarios that are familiar to all academic writers--and by extension, to practicing professionals as well.

Writing For Academic Purpose
Writing For Academic Purpose

Author: Eny Maulita Purnama Sari, S.Pd.I., M.Pd.

Publisher: Myria Publisher

Published:

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 6237199365

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This handout can be one of instructional textbooks used in the teaching of writing of English in Indonesia. It aims to provide a framework for teaching and learning English based on blended learning. All three chapters allow the students to practice academic writing by blended learning in e-learning system which help them to develop their academic writing skills. By having this skill, they can construct and establish academic writing correctly. It also enables them to study genre autonomously. The strengths of this handout such as effectiveness of using blended learning in the writing for academic subject, autonomous learning, and practice make a better academic writing. Then, this handout was developed based on the students’ need. In this handout, students not only found genre but also found characteristics, ways, and the rules of language in academic writing. Here, the writers would like to thanks to validators and students who give inputs and suggestions in improving the process of developing materials and models.

Doing Academic Writing in Education
Doing Academic Writing in Education

Author: Janet C. Richards

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-04-21

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1135616221

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This clear, reader-friendly book is carefully designed to help readers gain confidence and acquire competence in their academic writing abilities. It focuses on real people as they write and actively involves readers in the writing process. The authors' innovative approach encourages reflection on how professional writing initiatives connect to the personal self. For pre-service and in-service teachers, graduate students, school administrators, educational specialists, and all others involved in the educational enterprise, effective writing is important to professional success. Organized to help the reader move progressively and confidently forward as a writer of academic prose, Doing Academic Writing in Education: Connecting the Personal and the Professional features: *activities to engage readers in connecting their writing endeavors to their personal selves, and in discovering their own writing attitudes, behaviors, strengths, and problem areas; *practical applications to inform and support the reader's writing initiatives--including opportunities to engage in invention strategies, to begin a draft, to revise and edit a piece of writing that is personally and professionally important, and to record reflections about writing; *the voices of the authors and of graduate students who are pursuing a variety of academic writing tasks--to serve as models for the reader's writing endeavors; and *writing samples and personal stories about writing shared by experts in various contexts--offering hints about conditions, self-reflections, and habits that help them write effectively. All students and professionals in the field of education will welcome the distinctive focus in this book on connecting the personal and the professional, and the wealth of practical applications and opportunities for reflection it provides.

Coaching Writing in Content Areas
Coaching Writing in Content Areas

Author: William Strong

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780132690041

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From one of America's most respected writing professors-practical, motivating strategies for making writing a tool for learning, and for integrating it into content area instruction. This resource helps new and veteran teachers work smarter, not harder. Prompted by a "near-total neglect of writing" in content areas outside English, and drawing on the work of expert teachers, Bill Strong shows how write-for-insight coaching strategies enhance content learning. The clear, personal voice of the book-coupled with its rich examples-has made the first edition a "thumbs-up" favorite with National Writing Project sites across the nation. Early chapters of the book show how expressive writing can spark active learning; the later chapters demonstrate how public writing can extend student knowledge, preparing students for future success in academic and employment arenas. Written by a masterful teacher of teachers, the book's friendly, thought-provoking style is appropriate for both in-service and pre-service teachers in diverse disciplines.

Becoming an Academic Writer
Becoming an Academic Writer

Author: Patricia Goodson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1452203865

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Becoming an Academic Writer helps you gain control over writing and publishing, master specific aspects of academic writing, and improve your productivity. Patricia Goodson′s book offers weekly exercises and tools to achieve these goals. The exercises are grounded in a theoretically-sound and empirically-based mode comprising a set of behavioural principles (e.g., writing regularly, separating generating from editing) and specific practices (weekly exercises) which ensure success. Based on the work of writing theoretician Peter Elbow, the empirical research done by Robert Boice (and others) on writing productivity of college professors, and the research into the practice patterns of elite performers (such as Olympic athletes), the principles and practices have been developed and tested over time. Inside you′ll find: Exercises tailored to specific segments of academic papers and reports Tips for ESL Writers boxes, providing additional support. This book uniquely combines these successful principles with a set of original exercises applicable to the writing needs of academics as well as students.

Doing Academic Writing in Education
Doing Academic Writing in Education

Author: Janet C. Richards

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-04-21

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 113561623X

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Guides educators who are or will be engaged in a variety of academic writing tasks through the writing process with emphasis on connecting professional writing and the personal self.

Stylish Academic Writing
Stylish Academic Writing

Author: Helen Sword

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2012-04-02

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0674069137

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Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read—and to write. Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword’s analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce. Stylish Academic Writing showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.

Writing Programs Worldwide
Writing Programs Worldwide

Author: Chris Thaiss

Publisher: Parlor Press LLC

Published: 2012-07-30

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 160235345X

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WRITING PROGRAMS WORLDWIDE offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs. The authors of its program profiles show how innovators at a diverse range of universities on six continents have dealt creatively over many years with day-to-day and long-range issues affecting how students across disciplines and languages grow as communicators and learners.