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" The future of scholarly writing : "
edited by Angelika Bammer & Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres
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600298
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b429517
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The future of scholarly writing : : critical interventions /\ edited by Angelika Bammer Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres
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| Edition Statement
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First edition
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viii, 251 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9781137520463
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: 1137520469
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: 9781137520531
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: 1137520531
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Jane Gallop: The work of writing -- Naomi Scheman: Writers, authors, and the extraordinary ordinary -- Angelika Bammer: Tribal rites: academic-speak and the ambiguity of belonging -- Lisa Ruddick: When nothing is cool -- Rita Charon: Writing in the clinic, or what might be expressed? -- Paul Stoller: Looking for the right path -- Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres: Found in the details: essaying the particular -- Gyanendra Pandey: The "state" and the "plantation": writing differently -- Kate Nace Day: Stories and the language of law -- Ralph Hummel & Camilla Stivers: "Life has a mind of its own": public administration and "the soloist" -- Anna Grimshaw: Undisciplined practice: experimenting with anthropological form -- Michael Billig: Big words in small circles: bad writing and the social sciences -- Amy Katz Kaminsky: A discontinuous voice -- Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer: First person plural: notes on voice and collaboration -- Susan McClary: Writing about music-and the music of writing -- Carolyn Kay Steedman: The poetry of it (writing history) -- Ruth Behar: In the meantime
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Recent developments in the American academy - the growing emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration, the attention on public scholarship, and the potential for alternate forms of communication created by new media technologies - have put pressure on how scholars write. Within this shifting landscape of institutional demands and professional expectations, The Future of Scholarly Writing brings together a group of distinguished scholars from across the contemporary university to discuss the importance of form in their work. Scholarly work is commonly discussed in terms of its content, not its form. In contrast, this book makes a strong case that both are consequential and critical. Drawing on their experience as authorities in their fields, the authors describe the conventions of academic presentation in their disciplines, discuss their usefulness, and explain when and why they decided to write differently. As they weigh the costs and benefits of writing within the framework of discipline-based conventions they provide insight into the ways in which scholars can write for different publics while adhering to the rules that define good scholarship. This much-needed book combines cutting-edge scholarship with experimental writing methodologies to deepen the scholarly discourse. -- Amazon's website
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Academic writing
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Scholars-- Language
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P302.18.F88 2015
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Bammer, Angelika
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Joeres, Ruth-Ellen B.,1939-
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