Academic Writing - Third Edition: Writing and Reading Across the Disciplines (Paperback, 3)

Preface

1 Introducing Genre

• 1A Hearing Voices
  1B Hearing Genres
  1C High-School vs. University Writing
  1D The University as Research Institution

2 Citation and Summary

• 2A Introducing Scholarly Citation
  2B Is Citation Unique to Scholarly Writing?
  2C Why Do Scholars Use Citation?

3 Summary

• 3A Noting for Gist
  3B Recording Levels
  3C Using Gist and Levels of Generality toWrite Summary
  3D Establishing the Summarizer’s Position
  3E Reporting Reporting
  3F Experts and Non-Experts

4 Challenging Situations for Summarizers

• 4A High-Level Passages
  4B Low-Level Passages
  4C Summarizing Narrative

5 Readers Reading I

• 5A Who Do You Think You’re Talking To?
  5B Traditions of Commentary on Student Writing
  5C An Alternative to Traditional Commentary:The Think-Aloud Protocol
  5D Adapting the Think-Aloud Protocol in theWriting Classroom
  5E Reading on Behalf of Others
  5F Reliability of Readers
  5G Presupposing vs. Asserting

6 Orchestrating Voices

• 6A Making Speakers Visible: Writing as Conversation
  6B Orchestrating Scholarly Voices
  6C The Challenges of Non-Scholarly Voices
  6D Orchestrating Academic Textbooks and Popular Writing
  6E The Internet
  6F Research Proposals

7 Definition

• 7A Dictionaries
  7B Appositions
  7C Sustained Definitions
  7D The Social Profile of Abstractions and TheirDifferent Roles in Different Disciplines

8 Introductions

• 8A Generalization and Citation
  8B Reported Speech
  8C Documentation
  8D State of Knowledge and the Knowledge Deficit
  8E Student Versions of the Knowledge Deficit

9 Readers Reading II

• 9A Think-Aloud and Genre Theory
  9B The Mental Desktop

10 Scholarly Styles I: Nominal Style

• 10A Common and Uncommon Sense
  10B Is Scholarly Writing Unnecessarily Complicated,Exclusionary, or Elitist?
  10C Nominal Style: Syntactic Density
  10D Nominal Style: Ambiguity
  10E Sentence Style and Textual Coherence

11 Scholarly Styles II: Messages about the Argument

• 11A Messages about the Argument
  11B The Discursive I
  11C Forecasts
  11D Emphasis

12 Making and Maintaining Knowledge I

• 12A Making Knowledge
  12B Method Sections
  12C Qualitative Method and Subject Position

13 Making and Maintaining Knowledge II

• 13A Modality
  13B Other Markers of the Status of Knowledge
  13C Tense and the Story of Research

14 Conclusions and the Moral Compass of the Disciplines

• 14A Conclusions
  14B The Moral Compass of the Disciplines:Research Ethics
  14C The Moral Compass of the Disciplines:Moral Statements

Glossary
References
Subject Index
Index of Researchers Cited