The Handbook of Academic Writing Rowena Murray and …

[Pages:213]Rowena Murray and Sarah Moore

The Handbook of

Academic Writing

A Fresh Approach

The Handbook of Academic Writing

A Fresh Approach

The Handbook of Academic Writing

A Fresh Approach

Rowena Murray and Sarah Moore

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For Ger and Morag

Contents

Acknowledgements

viii

Preface

ix

Part I

1 Defining and understanding academic writing

3

2 Advancing your writing: Starting, gaining momentum and

engaging creatively in the academic writing process

20

3 Retreating: Reviewing, revising, crafting and enhancing your

writing

36

4 Disciplinarity in academic writing

54

Part II

5 Retreating to advance: Planning, running and participating

in writers' retreats for academics

73

6 A writing for publication programme

90

7 Writers' groups

109

Part III

8 Redefining academic writing practices

131

9 Integrating writing into your life

143

10 Using writing to reconcile teaching?research tensions

159

11 Advancing and retreating: The essential dynamic of

academic writing

175

Bibliography

184

Index

191

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