Academic Writing As If Readers Matter - Rilegato

Cassuto, Leonard

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ISBN 10: 0691263604 ISBN 13: 9780691263601

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2024

Riassunto

A guide to writing with the reader in mind

If you want people to read your writing, it has to be readable. In Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, Leonard Cassuto offers academic writers a direct, practical prescription for writing that will be read and understood: Take care of your reader. With a wealth of examples from the arts and sciences, this short, witty book provides invaluable advice to writers at all levels, in all fields, on how to write better for both specialized and broad audiences.

Good academic writing depends on connecting with readers, earning their time and attention. Cassuto offers tips and advice on how to sharpen arguments and make complex ideas compelling. He addresses the workings of introductions and conclusions, transitions, signposts, paragraphs, and sentences—all the building blocks of academic writing. He also shows how storytelling and metaphor can make your prose more engaging than you thought possible. And he explains the proper use of that most dangerous of tools: jargon.

This book can make any academic writer—including you—into a better writer. That means becoming a better communicator of the ideas and discoveries you want the world to grasp. For the sake of readers inside the academy and beyond it, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter shows how and why you have to make your writing connect with the people you’re writing for.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Leonard Cassuto is professor of English at Fordham University. He writes a regular column, “The Graduate Adviser,” for the Chronicle of Higher Education, and his many books include The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691263604
• ISBN 13: 9780691263601
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile