Research Literacies and Writing Pedagogies for Masters and Doctoral Writers

Graduate research writing: A pedagogy of possibility. [Creativity: Insights, Directions, and Possibilities]. LEARNing Landscapes, 6(1): 63–80.

Author: Cecile Badenhorst

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004304338

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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Post/graduate students experience enormous challenges in research writing. New writing pedagogies make explicit the often-hidden research literacies. Research Literacies and Writing Pedagogies for Masters and Doctoral Writers explores emerging innovations in supporting the development of research literacies in post/graduate writing.
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The Idea Writers

INSIGHTS, BRIEFS AND BRIEF INSIGHTS Many of the creatives quoted here talk about insights. A real brand insight is the starting place for anything good that ...

Author: T. Iezzi

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781137510440

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 213

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The Idea Writers guides both new and experienced copywriters through the process of creating compelling messages that sell. It shows readers what it's like to work in the fast-paced world of an agency while providing practical adviceplusdetails oncreatingaward-winning multimedia ad campaigns.
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Jewish Writers Irish Writers

... where sentimentality replaces insight and empathy, it represents a ... American Jewish scene can only admire the perspicacity of the author's insights.

Author: Maurice Wohlgelernter

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351510844

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 196

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"These essays on representative Jewish and Irish writers are true to the form's definition as an attempt or experiment rather than a credo. Wohlgelernter defines the author's ""excited imagination"" by thoroughgoing analysis of the work's constituent parts. He gives particular emphasis to the author's own words and expressions, those verbal inventions that linger in the mind long after the act of reading or criticism. He finds a passionate love of words and language forging a powerful link between Jewish and Irish literature, rooted as they are in similar historical experience. Both literatures engage the human struggle with life and death, virtue and weakness, success and failure, dreams and nightmares, all under the constant surveillance of tradition.Wohlgelernter divides his book into four general categories: the Holocaust, Jewish-American writers, Irish writers, and memoirs and autobiography. His chapters on Holocaust literature engage a range of literary perspectives that combine memoir, journalism, fiction, and philosophical reflection in the writings of Ladislas Fuks, Lucy Dawidowicz, Sabine Reichel, and Primo Levi. Chapters on postwar Jewish writers including Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth explore the ambivalences of assimilation with its encroachments of a provincial past and dissatisfactions with mainstream culture. Wohlgelernter notes how all yoke street raciness and high cultural mandarin in a distinctive contribution to American prose style. A similar richness of language and preoccupation with the political and cultural claims of the past characterize the chapters on the great short story writer Frank O'Connor, the playwright Brendan Behan, and the Irish-American journalist and novelist Pete Hamill.The last decades of the twentieth century have seen a prolific outpouring of autobiographical writing, and in the concluding section of the book the author treats representative examples that amplify or reflect on the personal an"
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Texas Women Writers

In Gentle Giants: Women Writers in Texas (1983), Iva Nell Elder includes, among biographies of seventeen women writers, insights into the lives of Suzanne ...

Author: Sylvia Ann Grider

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

ISBN: 0890967652

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 461

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Texas Women Writers: A Tradition of Their Own is a sweeping account of a rich yet largely ignored literary history covering over 160 years of women's writing in the Lone Star State. Their writings vary widely in theme, setting, and voice; nevertheless, these writers share a distinct tradition that is in part defined by their isolation due to both geography and gender and is wholly different from that of their male counterparts. The introductory essay by the editors covers the history of women writers in Texas from the pioneers to the postmodernists, providing the context and theme for the survey. Critical-biographical portraits of the lives and careers of individual writers both major and minor follow: from novelists, dramatists, and poets, to writers of short stories, children's books, and creative nonfiction. Other essays examine the developmental history of major genres in the region and chronologically review each generation and the particular challenges of time and place that shaped their work. The careers of African-American and Tejana writers are also examined as part of newly emerging literary traditions.
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Key Writers on Art The Twentieth Century

Today most of these generalizations and insights strike me as still valid. This comment provides a clue to the strengths as well as the limitations of ...

Author: Chris Murray

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134597208

Category: Art

Page: 336

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Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring 48 essays on the most important twentieth century writers and thinkers and written by an international panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to key approaches and analytical tools used in the study of contemporary art. It discusses writers such as Adorno, Barthes, Benjamin, Freud, Greenberg, Heuser, Kristeva, Merleau-Ponty, Pollock, Read and Sontag.
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Linguistics for Writers

that combines the insights of linguistics, rhetoric, cognitive science, communication, and stylistics.' Students of these disciplines will find that some of ...

Author: Colleen Elaine Donnelly

Publisher: SUNY Press

ISBN: 0791415724

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 251

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This book is designed so that writers, teachers, and students can begin to incorporate the insights of linguistics into their study of communication and writing. It has two main purposes. One is to demystify some of the most worthwhile and powerful linguistic theories that illuminate written discourse. Basic linguistic principles and theories are outlined. The primary purpose is to present a way in which these theories can be developed into practical techniques and methods for dealing with the writing and editing of texts. Oriented toward users—people who are seeking methods to improve their writing—the book contains numerous examples and exercises. Topics covered: the linguistic study of language; the cognitive processing of information; using non-traditional grammars; achieving cohesion and coherence; creating global coherence through macrostructures; and the pragmatic and sociolinguistic parameters of written communication.
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Writers on Writing

This anthology of interviews gives the reader insight into how a writer thinks, whether it's writing fiction, poetry, or pursuing academic work.

Author: Allen Mendenhall

Publisher: Red Dirt Press, LLC

ISBN: 9781732738324

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 230

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As a lawyer, Allen Mendenhall asks questions. As a writer, he's interested in the craft. Combine these two and you get this, a collection of writers discussing writing. Writers on Writing: Conversations with Allen Mendenhall is an anthology of penetrating interviews with prominent and diverse authors who discuss arts, literature, books, culture, life, and the writing process with Allen Mendenhall, editor of Southern Literary Review and associate dean at Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. Featuring the telling insights and sage advice of novelists, historians, poets, professors, philosophers, and more, Writers on Writing is not just an informative guide or a useful resource but a fount of inspiration. Readers will find in these pages authentic voices, frank exchanges, and unique perspectives on a wide variety of matters. Aspiring and established writers alike will learn from this book.
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Working with Faculty Writers

Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines. ... The Work of Writing: Insights and Strategies for Academics and Professionals.

Author: Anne Ellen Geller

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

ISBN: 9780874219029

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 319

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The imperative to write and to publish is a relatively new development in the history of academia, yet it is now a significant factor in the culture of higher education. Working with Faculty Writers takes a broad view of faculty writing support, advocating its value for tenure-track professors, adjuncts, senior scholars, and graduate students. The authors in this volume imagine productive campus writing support for faculty and future faculty that allows for new insights about their own disciplinary writing and writing processes, as well as the development of fresh ideas about student writing. Contributors from a variety of institution types and perspectives consider who faculty writers are and who they may be in the future, reveal the range of locations and models of support for faculty writers, explore the ways these might be delivered and assessed, and consider the theoretical, philosophical, political, and pedagogical approaches to faculty writing support, as well as its relationship to student writing support. With the pressure on faculty to be productive researchers and writers greater than ever, this is a must-read volume for administrators, faculty, and others involved in developing and assessing models of faculty writing support.
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A Field Guide for Science Writers

The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers Professor of ... It bears a personal stamp, demanding something of the writer's insights, ...

Author: Deborah Blum

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780195174991

Category: Science

Page: 321

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This guide offers practical tips on science writing - from investigative reporting to pitching ideas to magazine editors. Some of the best known science witers in the US share their hard earned knowledge on how they do their job.
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A Field Guide for Science Writers

He is the author of Apprentice to Genius (1986), about mentoring among elite ... It bears a personal stamp, demanding something of the writer's insights ...

Author: Deborah Blum

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 0195174984

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 321

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This guide offers practical tips on science writing - from investigative reporting to pitching ideas to magazine editors. Some of the best known science witers in the US share their hard earned knowledge on how they do their job.
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The ELL Writer

These individual constructions then become part of the larger writing ... about their writing, and sometimes equally uncertain about whether their insights ...

Author: Christina Ortmeier-Hooper

Publisher: Teachers College Press

ISBN: 9780807754177

Category: Education

Page: 197

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Modernist Women Writers and Narrative Art

Yet while these themes may be obvious to all readers, what is less evident is the way the authors' insights into such issues are rooted in their specific ...

Author: Kathleen Wheeler

Publisher: NYU Press

ISBN: 9780814792766

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 220

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This book is an examination of the narrative strategies and stylistic devices of modernist writers and of earlier writers normally associated with late realism. In the case of the latter, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin and Willa Cather are shown to have engaged in an ironic critique of realism, by exploring the inadequacies of this form to express human experience, and by revealing hidden, and contradictory, assumptions.
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American Women Writers Poetics and the Nature of Gender Study

Therefore the writer's mind is symbolic within the message of the words of the spirit. ... gender roles, and the author's insights on looking at the past.

Author: Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

ISBN: 9781443848756

Category:

Page: 150

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This volume studies processes of creating voices of the past to analyze and to juxtapose, discussing the nature of the educational community viewed through feminist theory to reveal hidden ideas surrounding stereotypes, gender status, and power in the postcolonial era. The contributions brought together here explore the various facets of language to focus on metaphorical grammatical constructions, unique and specific with form and function. They interpret various works to capture the essence of style, as well as rhetorical function of basic structure of grammar, diction and syntax, in a literary work as message and meaning. Furthermore, the book also discusses useful pedagogical and theoretical processes used by the literary scholar concerning the power of writing for cultural change. As such, the book will appeal to those who wish to heal through writing. The proceeds of the book support the authors’ local soup kitchen and crisis centers for domestic abuse.
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Pep Talks for Writers

52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo Grant Faulkner. were constantly under scrutiny, such a fear was embedded within me and had surely become ...

Author: Grant Faulkner

Publisher: Chronicle Books

ISBN: 9781452161716

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 256

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Every writer knows that as rewarding as the creative process is, it can often be a bumpy road. Have hope and keep at it! Designed to kick-start creativity, this handbook from the executive director of National Novel Writing Month gathers a wide range of insights and advice for writers at any stage of their career. From tips about how to finally start that story to helpful ideas about what to do when the words just aren't quite coming out right, Pep Talks for Writers provides motivation, encouragement, and helpful exercises for writers of all stripes.
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Becoming an Academic Writer

50 Exercises for Paced, Productive, and Powerful Writing Patricia Goodson ... The work of writing: Insights and strategies for academics and professionals.

Author: Patricia Goodson

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 9781452203867

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 225

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This book helps academic writers gain control over writing and publishing, master specific aspects of academic writing, and improve their productivity. Patricia Goodson offers weekly exercises and tools to achieve these goals. The exercises are theoretically-grounded and empirically-based, comprising a set of behavioral principles (e.g., writing regularly, separating generating from editing) and specific practices (weekly exercises) which ensure success. The author draws on research on writing and productivity in college settings, together with insights into the practice patterns of elite performers (such as Olympic athletes), to develop a set of key principles. This book uniquely combines these successful principles with a set of original exercises applicable to the writing needs of college professors and students.
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The Academic Writer s Toolkit

In other cases, I offer suggestions that provide new insights about writing. Just about every professional athlete has a coach. So why shouldn't professors, ...

Author: Arthur Asa Berger

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781315419329

Category: Psychology

Page: 176

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Berger’s slim, user-friendly volume on academic writing is a gift to linguistically-stressed academics. Author of 60 published books, the author speaks to junior scholars and graduate students about the process and products of academic writing. He differentiates between business writing skills for memos, proposals, and reports, and the scholarly writing that occurs in journals and books. He has suggestions for getting the “turgid” out of turgid academic prose and offers suggestions on how to best structure various forms of documents for effective communication. Written in Berger’s friendly, personal style, he shows by example that academics can write good, readable prose in a variety of genres.
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Writers and Social Thought in Africa

Can insights from trauma theory enrich our reading of Things Fall Apart or of other African texts? Even more importantly, if engaging with recent African ...

Author: Wale Adebanwi

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317378624

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 136

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Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature. However, because writers are some of the continent’s finest social thinkers, they have produced – and continue to produce – works which constitute potential sources for the analysis of social thought, and for constructing social theory, in and beyond the continent. This comprehensive collection examines the relationship between African literature and African social thought. It explores the evolution and aesthetics of social thought in African fiction, and African writers’ conceptions of power and authority, legitimacy, history and modernity, gender and sexuality, culture, epistemology, globalization, and change and continuity in Africa. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
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Supporting Research Writing

writing across the disciplines and in a variety of genres (the research article, the thesis, ... Feedback here can come from one's own insights arising from ...

Author: Valerie Matarese

Publisher: Elsevier

ISBN: 9781780633503

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 330

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Supporting Research Writing explores the range of services designed to facilitate academic writing and publication in English by non-native English-speaking (NNES) authors. It analyses the realities of offering services such as education, translation, editing and writing, and then considers the challenges and benefits that result when these boundaries are consciously blurred. It thus provides an opportunity for readers to reflect on their professional roles and the services that will best serve their clients’ needs. A recurring theme is, therefore, the interaction between language professional and client-author. The book offers insights into the opportunities and challenges presented by considering ourselves first and foremost as writing support professionals, differing in our primary approach (through teaching, translating, editing, writing, or a combination of those) but with a common goal. This view has major consequences for the training of professionals who support English-language publication by NNES academics and scientists. Supporting Research Writing will therefore be a stimulus to professional development for those who support English-language publication in real-life contexts and an important resource for those entering the profession. Takes a holistic approach to writing support and reveals how it is best conceived as a spectrum of overlapping and interrelated professional activities Stresses the importance of understanding the real-world needs of authors in their quest to publish Provides insights into the approaches used by experienced practitioners across Europe
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