The Future of Scholarly Writing: Critical Interventions

by Angelika Bammer (editor), Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres (Editor)

This stimulating collection is the first to take on the issue of form and what it means to the future of scholarly writing. A wide range of distinguished scholars from fields including law, literature, and anthropology shed light on the ways scholars can write for different publics and still adhere to the standards of quality scholarship.

259 pages, Hardcover

First published September 2, 2015

Reviews

[Laurel Perez]

I inhaled this book, which is really saying something, because sometimes academic books about writing cannot be inhaled. This is a collection of mostly short essays about what writing does in the world in ways that I don't think are talked about enough. Such as how story is turned into fact in legal writing, or how the personal I is removed from academic writing, as if what we write about isn't inherently personal. If you write in the world, are an academic of any sort who writes into your discipline -- you'll find yourself in these pages. You will begin to further question how you write, and how to move forward from there.