The Future of Scholarly Writing: Critical Interventions

ISBN-13: 9781137520531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 251 str.

Angelika Bammer

Opis

Recent developments in the American academy - the growing emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration, the attention on public scholarship, and the potential for alternate forms of communication created by new media technologies - have put pressure on how scholars write. Within this shifting landscape of institutional demands and professional expectations, The Future of Scholarly Writing brings together a group of distinguished scholars from across the contemporary university to discuss the importance of form in their work. Scholarly work is commonly discussed in terms of its content, not its form. In contrast, this book makes a strong case that both are consequential and critical. Drawing on their experience as authorities in their fields, the authors describe the conventions of academic presentation in their disciplines, discuss their usefulness, and explain when and why they decided to write differently. As they weigh the costs and benefits of writing within the framework of discipline-based conventions they provide insight into they ways in which scholars can write for different publics while adhering to the rules that define good scholarship. This much-needed book combines cutting-edge scholarship with experimental writing methodologies to deepen the scholarly discourse.

Recenzje

"Representing disciplines across the humanities and social and natural sciences ... the contributors acknowledge the importance of scholarly norms and discuss tensions between compliance and what writers want to say, how they want to say it, audience expectations, and intended outcomes. In addition, the authors explain how they challenge these norms and call for legitimate space to successfully convey the message. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (D. Truty, Choice, Vol. 54 (3), November, 2016)

"This book offers ways to move onward and forward, into the future of academic writing, of writing and thinking in general, and of the kind of work we aim to do as politically engaged intellectuals, scholars, and writers. ... While it is a book about academic writing, it is also very much an academic book and an example of scholarship at its best: it is politically engaged, it inspires, and it calls for further inquiry." (Maria Stehle, Women in German, 2016)

O autorze

Ruth Behar, University of Michigan, USA Michael Billig, Loughborough University, UK Rita Charon, Columbia University, USA Kate Nace Day, Suffolk University, USA Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA Anna Grimshaw, Emory University, USA Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA Ralph Hummel, Retired Scholar, USA Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota, USA Susan McClary, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University, USA Lisa Ruddick, University of Chicago, USA Naomi Scheman, University of Minnesota, USA Leo Spitzer, Columbia University, USA Carolyn Steedman, University of Warwick, UK Camilla Stivers, Cleveland State University, USA Paul Stoller, West Chester University, USA