The Elements of Academic Style

Auteur

Eric Hayot is professor of comparative literature and Asian studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of On Literary Worlds, The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain (co-recipient of the 2010 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize), and Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel quel. He has worked for the Columbus Dispatch and the Associated Press. More recently, his writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Public Books. He also is a cofounder of the blog Printculture.

Texte du rabat

Combining psychological support with practical suggestions for structuring paragraphs and essays composing introductions and conclusions, developing schedules and habits for writing, and using notes and citations, Eric Hayot rejuvenates scholarship and writing in the humanities. From small concerns to big-picture issues, he helps students, newly minted Ph.D.'s, and established professors shape their work and develop their voices while also adjusting their perspective as writers, encouraging scholars to think of themselves as makers and doers of important work.

Contenu

1. Why Read This Book?Part I. Writing as Practice2. Unlearning What You (Probably) Know3. Eight Strategies for Getting Writing Done4. Institutional Contexts5. Dissertations and Books6. A Materialist Theory of Writing7. How Do Readers Work?Part II. Strategy8. The Uneven U9. Structure and Subordination10. Structural Rhythm11. Introductions12. Don't Say It All Early13. Paragraphing14. Three Types of Transitions15. Showing Your Iceberg16. Metalanguage17. Ending Well18. Titles and SubtitlesPart III. Tactics19. Citational Practice20. Conference Talks21. Examples22. Figural Language23. Footnotes and Endnotes24. Jargon25. Parentheticals26. Pronouns27. Repetition28. Rhetorical Questions and Clauses29. Sentence Rhythm30. Ventilation31. WeightPart IV. Becoming32. Work as Process33. Becoming a Writer34. From the Workshop to the World (as Workshop [as World])35. AcknowledgmentsAppendix: A Writer's WorkbookWorks CitedBibliography