How to Stop Being Stuck with your Academic Writing

By (author) Seonaidh McDonald

ISBN13: 9781035362622

Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 14/03/2025

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Description
Providing a wealth of advice surrounding different ways of working, collaborating and thinking about your writing, this illuminating How to guide acts as an essential sourcebook for academics at any career stage. Seonaidh McDonald shares authentic stories, offers countless suggestions and provides key resources to help you progress your academic writing. This indispensable guide equips readers with the strategies they need to start writing, and keep writing. Sections can be navigated sequentially, randomly or by linked ideas, offering a myriad of tools and approaches that can be used to develop key writing skills, such as becoming unstuck, drafting and working with others. They also cover a broad range of contemporary scholastic concerns including a section on improving your writing, a discussion of current institutional barriers to academic writing and an extensive resource list. How to Stop Being Stuck with your Academic Writing acts as an essential resource for scholars struggling with their craft or supporting others with their writing. It will also be of interest to academics of business and other social science disciplines including development studies, economics and management seeking to build more consistency and joy into their writing processes.
Contents: Preface Introduction to How to Stop Being Stuck with Your Academic Writing How to use this book How this book is organised 1 Try new things 2 Seek out support 3 Shift your thinking 4 Improving your writing 5 Institutional problems (and what you might do about them) 6 Resources Where do I start? Flowcharts References
  • Writing & editing guides
  • Research methods: general
  • Writing skills
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
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List Price: £27.95