Seductive Academic Writing

Seductive Academic Writing
Author: Danyal Freeman
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2018-04-18
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1527509869

This volume teaches academics and graduate students how to write seductive academic prose by learning a literacy rarely taught in academic writing or style handbooks: to use literary devices and figures of speech to meet ideals of stylish communication; and how these ideals and supposed ‘literary’ techniques serve academic readers and writers. Part one explores the persistent problem of the bad academic writing style called ‘academese’ and argues stylish academic writers avoid it by writing with figures of speech. Part two teaches and illustrates figures of speech seductive writers write into academic prose to convey the music and rhythms of good speech, cohesion, coherence and storytelling, and the personality and passions of the author. Part three argues the academy will not heal itself of academese until academic writing pedagogies teach students to care enough for their readers to write with figures of speech that craft seductive academic writing.

Stylish Academic Writing

Stylish Academic Writing
Author: Helen Sword
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012-04-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0674069137

Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read—and to write. Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword’s analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce. Stylish Academic Writing showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.

MFA Vs NYC

MFA Vs NYC
Author: Chad Harbach
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0865478139

Writers write—but what do they do for money? In a widely read essay entitled "MFA vs NYC," bestselling novelist Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding) argued that the American literary scene has split into two cultures: New York publishing versus university MFA programs. This book brings together established writers, MFA professors and students, and New York editors, publicists, and agents to talk about these overlapping worlds, and the ways writers make (or fail to make) a living within them. Should you seek an advanced degree, or will workshops smother your style? Do you need to move to New York, or will the high cost of living undo you? What's worse—having a day job or not having health insurance? How do agents decide what to represent? Will Big Publishing survive? How has the rise of MFA programs affected American fiction? The expert contributors, including George Saunders, Elif Batuman, and Fredric Jameson, consider all these questions and more, with humor and rigor. MFA vs NYC is a must-read for aspiring writers, and for anyone interested in the present and future of American letters.

Hot Text

Hot Text
Author: Jonathan Price
Publisher: New Riders
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780735711518

Attention, Web writers! This book will show you how to craft prose that grabs your guests' attention, changes their attitudes, and convinces them to act. You'll learn how to make your style fast, tight, and scannable. You'll cook up links that people love to click, menus that mean something, and pages of text that search engines rank high. You'll learn how to write great Web help, FAQs, responses to customers, marketing copy, press releases, news articles, e-mail newsletters, Webzine raves, or your own Web resume. Case studies show real-life examples you can follow. No matter what you write on the Web, you'll see how to personalize, build communities, and burst out of the conventional with your own honest style.

Re/Writing the Center

Re/Writing the Center
Author: Susan Lawrence
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1607327511

Re/Writing the Center illuminates how core writing center pedagogies and institutional arrangements are complicated by the need to create intentional, targeted support for advanced graduate writers. Most writing center tutors are undergraduates, whose lack of familiarity with the genres, preparatory knowledge, and research processes integral to graduate-level writing can leave them underprepared to assist graduate students. Complicating the issue is that many of the graduate students who take advantage of writing center support are international students. The essays in this volume show how to navigate the divide between traditional writing center theory and practices, developed to support undergraduate writers, and the growing demand for writing centers to meet the needs of advanced graduate writers. Contributors address core assumptions of writing center pedagogy, such as the concept of peers and peer tutoring, the emphasis on one-to-one tutorials, the positioning of tutors as generalists rather than specialists, and even the notion of the writing center as the primary location or center of the tutoring process. Re/Writing the Center offers an imaginative perspective on the benefits writing centers can offer to graduate students and on the new possibilities for inquiry and practice graduate students can inspire in the writing center. Contributors: Laura Brady, Michelle Cox, Thomas Deans, Paula Gillespie​, Mary Glavan, Marilyn Gray​, James Holsinger​, Elena Kallestinova, Tika Lamsal​, Patrick S. Lawrence, Elizabeth Lenaghan, Michael A. Pemberton​, Sherry Wynn Perdue​, Doug Phillips, Juliann Reineke​, Adam Robinson​, Steve Simpson, Nathalie Singh-Corcoran​, Ashly Bender Smith, Sarah Summers​, Molly Tetreault​, Joan Turner, Bronwyn T. Williams, Joanna Wolfe

Writing at the End of the World

Writing at the End of the World
Author: Richard E. Miller
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2005-10-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0822972840

What do the humanities have to offer in the twenty-first century? Are there compelling reasons to go on teaching the literate arts when the schools themselves have become battlefields? Does it make sense to go on writing when the world itself is overrun with books that no one reads? In these simultaneously personal and erudite reflections on the future of higher education, Richard E. Miller moves from the headlines to the classroom, focusing in on how teachers and students alike confront the existential challenge of making life meaningful. In meditating on the violent events that now dominate our daily lives—school shootings, suicide bombings, terrorist attacks, contemporary warfare—Miller prompts a reconsideration of the role that institutions of higher education play in shaping our daily experiences, and asks us to reimagine the humanities as centrally important to the maintenance of a compassionate, secular society. By concentrating on those moments when individuals and institutions meet and violence results, Writing at the End of the World provides the framework that students and teachers require to engage in the work of building a better future.

Meander, Spiral, Explode

Meander, Spiral, Explode
Author: Jane Alison
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1948226138

"How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read . . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom to explore but with enough guidance to thrive." ―Maris Kreizman, Vulture A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 | A Poets & Writers Best Books for Writers As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: “For centuries there’s been one path through fiction we’re most likely to travel― one we’re actually told to follow―and that’s the dramatic arc: a situation arises, grows tense, reaches a peak, subsides . . . But something that swells and tautens until climax, then collapses? Bit masculosexual, no? So many other patterns run through nature, tracing other deep motions in life. Why not draw on them, too?" W. G. Sebald’s Emigrants was the first novel to show Alison how forward momentum can be created by way of pattern, rather than the traditional arc--or, in nature, wave. Other writers of nonlinear prose considered in her “museum of specimens” include Nicholson Baker, Anne Carson, Marguerite Duras, Gabriel García Márquez, Jamaica Kincaid, Clarice Lispector, Susan Minot, David Mitchell, Caryl Phillips, and Mary Robison. Meander, Spiral, Explode is a singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions. It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let’s leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation. It will appeal to serious readers and writers alike.

Seducing a Woman with Words

Seducing a Woman with Words
Author: Lucas Lautier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781983043451

"Hi, how are you?" Do you count on seducing a girl with this kind of line? Really? May he who has never ended up in the friendzone cast the first stone at me. We've all already found ourselves in this uncomfortable situation: the one where we try to go further with a friend before being gently rejected. And yet, by applying some powerful advice that would have allowed you to position yourself otherwise in the nascent relationship, you would surely be in a relationship with this woman at this time. The secrets I am about to pass on to you have made me the man I am today: a true and complete man who is aware of the hidden power of words. The seduction techniques that you will soon learn have allowed me to sleep with more than forty women at only 22 years old. Passionate about human psychology (and female beauty), I looked into the subject very early to reach my goals. I ended up mastering the tricks of the trade to a point where everything became too easy... Seducing a woman by SMS, approaching on Facebook or flirting on Tinder is child's play for me. This is what you're going to learn in this book: - How to never again end up in the Friendzone by learning the difference between a classic conversation and flirting (many people confuse the two). We don't talk to a friend in the same way that we would talk to a potential future girlfriend. - How to effectively start a conversation with a woman on a dating site or Facebook and make her want to get to know you, by differentiating yourself from other men. - How to never run out of subjects to talk about, by using the storytelling technique. - How to position yourself in the emerging relationship to be and continue to be the alpha-male and to control the upcoming sequence of events. - How to make a girl want you without seeming like a pervert. To handle the art of sexualisation like a God. - How to appear mysterious and make her crazy for you in a short amount of time. - How to be light-hearted, funny and endearing by using humour. The examples will be as real as can be and modelled on real conversations. All of the extracts from discussions which will be presented to you are not made up but rewritten versions of, or strongly inspired by, my past conversations: everything is authentic (except the names used for obvious confidentiality reasons). Ready to be part of the elite? The group of 5% of men who seduce Facebook, Tinder, Happn, Bumble, Match.com, OkCupid, Instagram and many others. And who sleep with all the women of their dreams.

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks
Author: Wendy Laura Belcher
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2009-01-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 141295701X

This book provides you with all the tools you need to write an excellent academic article and get it published.

Academic Writing for Graduate Students

Academic Writing for Graduate Students
Author: John M. Swales
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1994
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

A Course for Nonnative Speakers of English. Genre-based approach. Includes units such as graphs and commenting on other data and research papers.