The Elements of Academic Style

Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and developing productive and rewarding writing habits, Hayot helps ambitious students, newly minted Ph.D.'s, and established professors shape their work and develop their voices.

Hayot does more than explain the techniques of academic writing. He aims to adjust the writer's perspective, encouraging scholars to think of themselves as makers and doers of important work. Scholarly writing can be frustrating and exhausting, yet also satisfying and crucial, and Hayot weaves these experiences, including his own trials and tribulations, into an ethos for scholars to draw on as they write. Combining psychological support with practical suggestions for composing introductions and conclusions, developing a schedule for writing, using notes and citations, and structuring paragraphs and essays, this guide to the elements of academic style does its part to rejuvenate scholarship and writing in the humanities.

Auteur

Eric Hayot

Contenu

1. Why Read This Book?
   Part I. Writing as Practice
   
   2. Unlearning What You (Probably) Know
   3. Eight Strategies for Getting Writing Done
   4. Institutional Contexts
   5. Dissertations and Books
   6. A Materialist Theory of Writing
   7. How Do Readers Work?
      Part II. Strategy
   8. The Uneven U
   9. Structure and Subordination
   10. Structural Rhythm
   11. Introductions
   12. Don't Say It All Early
   13. Paragraphing
   14. Three Types of Transitions
   15. Showing Your Iceberg
   16. Metalanguage
   17. Ending Well
   18. Titles and Subtitles
       Part III. Tactics
   19. Citational Practice
   20. Conference Talks
   21. Examples
   22. Figural Language
   23. Footnotes and Endnotes
   24. Jargon
   25. Parentheticals
   26. Pronouns
   27. Repetition
   28. Rhetorical Questions and Clauses
   29. Sentence Rhythm
   30. Ventilation
   31. Weight
       Part IV. Becoming
   32. Work as Process
   33. Becoming a Writer
   34. From the Workshop to the World (as Workshop [as World])
   35. Acknowledgments
       Appendix: A Writer's Workbook
       Works Cited
       Bibliography