Are you confused by the feedback you get from your academic teachers and mentors? This clear and accessible guide to decoding academic feedback will help you interpret what your lecturer or research supervisor is really trying to tell you about your writing--and show you how to fix it. It will help you master a range of techniques and strategies to take your writing to the next level and along the way you'll learn why academic text looks the way it does, and how to produce that 'authoritative scholarly voice' that everyone talks about. This book is an easy-to-use resource for postgraduate students and researchers in all disciplines, and even professional academics, to diagnose their writing issues and find ways to fix them. This book would also be a valuable text for academic writing courses and writing groups, such as those offered in doctoral and Master's by research degree programmes. 'Whether they have writing problems or not, every academic writer will want this handy compendium of effective strategies and sound explanations on their book shelf--it's a must-have.' Pat Thomson, Professor of Education, University of Nottingham, UK

lgrsnf/How_to_Fix_Your_Academic_Writing_Trouble.pdf

Mewburn, Inger, Firth, Katherine, Lehmann, Shaun

McGraw-Hill Education

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London, England, 2019

Maidenhead, 2018

New York, 2019

2018-12-21

PS, 2018

Mobilism

Source title: How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble: A Practical Guide

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Introduction: You may have Academic Writing Troubles, but you can fix them!
1.1 Why you should buy this book
1.2 Time management for academic writing: the Pomodoro Technique, Shut Up and Write and boot camps
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‘Your writing doesn’t sound very academic’: how to convince your reader you belong
2.1 How to unlearn high school English
2.2 ‘This sounds chatty or not scholarly’: getting the academic tone right
2.3 ‘Who are you standing with?’: Being argumentative in your writing
2.4 Getting beyond ‘descriptive’ writing by entering the theory wars
2.5 Using verbs to signal you belong: plus a verb cheat sheet
2.6 How to use references to show who your academic network is (and isn’t)
2.7 Using references as magic tokens to power up your writing
2.8 ‘Do you really need all this detail?’ How and when to use footnotes and appendices
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‘Where’s your evidence for this?’: Using what you know to make a case
3.1 How to understand how different disciplines use evidence (and take advantage of it)
3.2 How to move from having a research question to having an answer in your writing
3.3 The almost invisible structure of paragraphs
3.4 What is a warrant? And how to use warrants to persuade your reader
3.5 Signposting words: using conjunctive adverbs like ‘however’ correctly
3.6 Using figures to help and not hinder
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‘Your writing doesn’t flow’: making your text coherent and fluent
4.1 How to make sure your reader will understand what you are trying to say
4.2 How to write a clear sentence
4.3 Use signposting to guide academic readers
4.4 Keep your sentences moving forward with themes and rhemes
4.5 Untangling your tenses
4.6 How to use free or generative writing to make progress (and create flow)
4.7 Planning your writing with flexible techniques
4.8 Solving illogical structures with reverse outlines
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‘Waffle’: improving readability by managing your extra words
5.1 Writing one whole sentence at a time
5.2 How and when to use the passive voice
5.3 How to kill zombie words
5.4 Are you suffering from parataxis or hypotaxis?
5.5 Fighting weeds and cutting your word count
5.6 Get rid of filler words
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‘Uncritical!’: Taking a stand in your writing
6.1 Who am I to question?
6.2 Can I use ‘I’?
6.3 How not to be unintentionally exclusionary in your writing
6.4 Avoiding excessive cleverness
6.5 Hedging and boosting language
6.6 Argument diagramming
6.7 How to be more logical
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‘Where’s your discussion section?’: Structuring your work as a whole
7.1 Designing your dissertation as a whole work
7.2 Turning an annotated bibliography on steroids into a proper literature review
7.3 Making and using a literature review matrix
7.4 How to write an abstract
7.5 How to write a good glossary
7.6 Structuring multidisciplinary work
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The end of this book, but not the end of your dissertation

"Are you confused by the feedback you get from your academic teachers and mentors? This clear and accessible guide to decoding academic feedback will help you interpret what your lecturer or research supervisor is really trying to tell you about your writing - and show you how to fix it. We will help you master a range of techniques and strategies to take your writing to the next level and along the way you'll learn why academic text looks the way it does, and how to produce that 'authoritative scholarly voice' that everyone talks about."--Quatrième de couverture

2021-12-29