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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Maidenhead, England ; New York McGraw-Hill : Open University Press, 2006Description: xiv, 196 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780335219339
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.06637 MU.H 2006 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1408  .M87 2006
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Contents:
Summary: Drawing on diverse literature such as rhetoric and organisational behaviour, this book addresses the various dimensions of writing. It helps writers in academic contexts, to develop a productive writing strategy, not only for research monitoring exercises, but also for the long term.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-190) and index.

1. Defining and understanding academic writing -- 2. Advancing your writing: starting, gaining momentum and engaging creatively in the academic writing process -- 3. Retreating: reviewing, revising, crafting and enhancing your writing -- 4. Disciplinarity in academic writing -- 5. Retreating to advance: planning, running and participating in writers' retreats for academics -- 6. A writing for publication programme -- 7. Writers' groups -- 8. Redefining academic writing practices -- 9. Integrating writing into your life -- 10. Using writing to reconcile teaching-research tensions -- 11. Advancing and retreating: the essential dynamic of academic writing.

Drawing on diverse literature such as rhetoric and organisational behaviour, this book addresses the various dimensions of writing. It helps writers in academic contexts, to develop a productive writing strategy, not only for research monitoring exercises, but also for the long term.

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