Academic Writing as if Readers Matter (eBook)

Leonard Cassuto (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2024
201 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25661-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A guide to writing with the reader in mindIf you want people to read your writing, it has to be readable. In Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, 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 all fields, on how to write better for both specialized and broad audiences.Good academic writing depends on connecting with readers, earning their time and attention. Cassuto offers tips and advice on how to sharpen arguments and make complex ideas compelling. He addresses the workings of introductions and conclusions, transitions, signposts, paragraphs, and sentencesall the building blocks of academic writing. He also shows how storytelling and metaphor can make your prose more engaging than you thought possible. And he explains the proper use of that most dangerous of tools: jargon.This book can make any academic writerincluding youinto a better writer. That means becoming a better communicator of the ideas and discoveries you want the world to grasp. For the sake of readers inside the academy and beyond it, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter shows how and why you have to make your writing connect with the people you're writing for.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Skills for Scholars
• Zusatzinfo: 16 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: academic • academic readers • academic writers • Academic Writing • Academic writing academic • Address • Argument • Art discontinuation • Berlant • Block quotation • books • Claim • Communication • Community • Composition • Concrete abstract • converse • Culture • Data • deductive • Driven reader • earlier • Essay • expository writing • extended metaphor • famous • graduate • graduate student • How to Write Well and Why We Must • Jargon • Job • journey • judgment • Knowledge • Leonard Cassuto • Literature • literature review • Metaphor • narrative logic • Novel • patrick henry • persuade • Phrases • Piece writing • Princeton University Press • Prose • prose style • public writing • Relationship • Research • scholars • Scholarship • Semantic generalization • Sentences paragraphs • signposts • Style • Teachers • Thesis • Topic sentences • Topkapi • Topkapi culture • Transitions • Water • whale • Writer reader • Writers readers • Writing • Writing academic • Writing academic writing • Writing Style
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25661-6 / 0691256616
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25661-0 / 9780691256610