The handbook of academic writing : a fresh approach / by Rowena Murray and Sarah Moore.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.This book will help those in both groups not only to improve their writing skills and strategies, but, equally important, to find satisfaction and meaning in what often seems like one big 'game'. Drawing on literatures as diverse as rhetoric and organisational behaviour, this book addresses the different dimensions of writing: in order to write well and regularly, we argue, you have to take a good look at both your rhetorical knowledge and your writing behaviours.This book will help writers in academic contexts to develop a productive writing strategy, not only for research monitoring exercises, but also for the long term.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Part I Defining and understanding academic writing
• Advancing your writing: Starting, gaining momentum and engaging creatively in the academic writing process
• Retreating: Reviewing, revising, crafting and enhancing your writing
• Disciplinarity in academic writing
• Part II Retreating to advance: Planning, running and participating in writers' retreats for academics
• A writing for publication programme
• Writers' groups
• Part III Redefining academic writing practices
• Integrating writing into your life
• Using writing to reconcile teaching-research tensions
• Advancing and retreating: The essential dynamic of academic writing
• Bibliography
• Index