Academic Writing: An Introduction - Third Edition (Paperback, 3)

Preface

1. Introducing Genre
1. Hearing Voices
2. Hearing Genres
3. High-School vs. University Writing
4. The University as Research Institution


2. Citation and Summary
1. Introducing Scholarly Citation
2. Is Citation Unique to Scholarly Writing?
3. Why Do Scholars Use Citation?


3. Summary
1. Noting for Gist
2. Recording Levels
3. Using Gist and Levels of Generality to Write Summary
4. Establishing the Summarizer’s Position
5. Reporting Reporting
6. Experts and Non-Experts


4. Challenging Situations for Summarizers
1. High-Level Passages
2. Low-Level Passages
3. Summarizing Narrative


5. Readers Reading I
1. Who Do You Think You’re Talking To?
2. Traditions of Commentary on Student Writing
3. An Alternative to Traditional Commentary:
   The Think-Aloud Protocol
4. Adapting the Think-Aloud Protocol in the Writing Classroom
5. Reading on Behalf of Others
6. Reliability of Readers
7. Presupposing vs. Asserting


6. Orchestrating Voices
1. Making Speakers Visible: Writing as Conversation
2. Orchestrating Scholarly Voices
3. The Challenges of Non-Scholarly Voices
4. Orchestrating Academic Textbooks and Popular Writing
5. The Internet
6. Research Proposals


7. Definition
1. Dictionaries
2. Appositions
3. Sustained Definitions
4. The Social Profile of Abstractions and Their Different Roles in Different Disciplines


8. Introductions
1. Generalization and Citation
2. Reported Speech
3. Documentation
4. State of Knowledge and the Knowledge Deficit
5. Student Versions of the Knowledge Deficit


9. Readers Reading II
1. Think-Aloud and Genre Theory
2. The Mental Desktop


10. Scholarly Styles I: Nominal Style
1. Common and Uncommon Sense
2. Is Scholarly Writing Unnecessarily Complicated, Exclusionary, or Elitist?
3. Nominal Style: Syntactic Density
4. Nominal Style: Ambiguity
5. Sentence Style and Textual Coherence


11. Scholarly Styles II: Messages about the Argument
1. Messages about the Argument
2. The Discursive I
3. Forecasts
4. Emphasis


12. Making and Maintaining Knowledge I
1. Making Knowledge
2. Method Sections
3. Qualitative Method and Subject Position


13. Making and Maintaining Knowledge II
1. Modality
2. Other Markers of the Status of Knowledge
3. Tense and the Story of Research


14. Conclusions and the Moral Compass of the Disciplines
1. Conclusions
2. The Moral Compass of the Disciplines:
   Research Ethics
3. The Moral Compass of the Disciplines:
   Moral Statements

Glossary

References

Subject Index

Index of Researchers Cited