The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities (Paperback)

1. Why Read This Book?
Part I. Writing as Practice
2. Unlearning What You (Probably) Know
3. Eight Strategies for Getting Writing Done
4. Institutional Contexts
5. Dissertations and Books
6. A Materialist Theory of Writing
7. How Do Readers Work?
Part II. Strategy
8. The Uneven U
9. Structure and Subordination
10. Structural Rhythm
11. Introductions
12. Don't Say It All Early
13. Paragraphing
14. Three Types of Transitions
15. Showing Your Iceberg
16. Metalanguage
17. Ending Well
18. Titles and Subtitles
Part III. Tactics
19. Citational Practice
20. Conference Talks
21. Examples
22. Figural Language
23. Footnotes and Endnotes
24. Jargon
25. Parentheticals
26. Pronouns
27. Repetition
28. Rhetorical Questions and Clauses
29. Sentence Rhythm
30. Ventilation
31. Weight
Part IV. Becoming
32. Work as Process
33. Becoming a Writer
34. From the Workshop to the World (as Workshop [as World])
35. Acknowledgments
Appendix: A Writer's Workbook
Works Cited
Bibliography