Academic Writing: An Introduction - Fourth Edition

ISBN-13: 9781554815234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021

Daniel Burgoyne

Spis treści

• 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 to Write 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 Think-Aloud Protocols in the Writing Classroom
• 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 the Writing 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 Research Proposals
• 7 Definition
• 7A Dictionaries
• 7B Appositions
• 7C Sustained Definitions
• 7D The Social Profile of Abstractions and Their Different 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 Scholarly Readers
• 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 Scholarly Styles III: Visual Rhetoric
• 12A Figures
• 12B Graphs
• 12C Tables
• 12D Research Posters
• 13 Making and Maintaining Knowledge I
• 13A Peer Review
• 13B Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (IMRD)
• 13C Making Knowledge
• 13D Method Sections
• 13E Qualitative Method and Subject Position
• 14 Making and Maintaining Knowledge II
• 14A Modality
• 14B Other Markers of the Status of Knowledge
• 14C Tense and the Story of Research
• 15 Conclusions and the Moral Compass of the Disciplines
• 15A Conclusions
• 15B The Moral Compass of the Disciplines: Research Ethics
• 15C The Moral Compass of the Disciplines: Moral Statements

• Glossary

• References
• Subject Index
• Index of Researchers Cited