Academic Writing: An Introduction - Fourth Edition

- Preface1 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