"The aim of this book is to provide guidelines for preparing papers and presentations so that your message can be transmitted clearly and concisely to the reader or listener. Techniques for improving your writing, literature searching and training students in communication are a…
Clearly organised into four parts, this new edition allows teachers and students to quickly find help they need with all writing tasks. Each part is divided into short sections containing explanations, diagrams and practice exercises, for use in the classroom or for self-study.
'A Guide to Academic Publishing Success' is a new approach to enabling academic authors to overcome their anxieties and produce the publications that are essential to succeeding in their fields. Each week, readers learn a particular feature of strong articles and work on revisin…
Written for both faculty and students, 'Writing a Successful Thesis or Dissertation' provides a comprehensive 'how-to' compendium for completing a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation.
Introduction:There is no single `best' way to write about art; .`International Art English'; Anyone can learn to write competently about art -- Section One. The Job: Why Write About Contemporary Art: Explaining v. evaluating; Art-words and artworks; Artist/dealer/curator/critic/…
People who work well with numbers are often stymied by how to write about them. Those who don't often work with numbers have an even tougher time trying to put them into words. For instance, scientists and policy analysts learn to calculate and interpret numbers, but not how to …
People who work well with numbers are often stymied by how to write about them. Those who don't often work with numbers have an even tougher time trying to put them into words. For instance, scientists and policy analysts learn to calculate and interpret numbers, but not how to …
"The book...contains fifteen interdisciplinary essays that examine the use of fast and abbreviated writing over the course of two millennia: the abbreviated systems of antiquity and the Middle Ages; early reportationes and printing; cryptographic, stenographic, shorthand and cal…
This book addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, the author explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditati…
This book addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, the author explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditati…
"This newly revised 30th Anniversary edition provides a robust scholarly introduction to the history of writing instruction in the West from Ancient Greece to the present-day United States. It preserves the legacy of writing instruction from antiquity to contemporary times with …
