The Handbook of Academic Writing: A Fresh Approach

Acknowledgements
Preface

Part I
Defining and understanding academic writing
Advancing your writing: Starting, gaining momentum and engaging creatively in the academic writing process
Retreating: Reviewing, revising, crafting and enhancing your writing
Disciplinarity in academic writing

Part II
Retreating to advance: Planning, running and participating in writers' retreats for academics
A writing for publication programme
Writers' groups

Part III
Redefining academic writing practices
Integrating writing into your life
Using writing to reconcile teaching-research tensions.
Advancing and retreating: The essential dynamic of academic writing

Bibliography
Index

The Handbook of Academic Writing offers practical advice to busy academics who want, and are often required, to integrate writing into their working lives. It defines what academic writing is, and the process of getting started through to completion, covering topics such as:

• Gaining momentum
• Reviewing and revising
• Self-discipline
• Writing regularly
• Writers' groups and retreats

Academic writing is one of the most demanding tasks that all academics and researchers face. In some disciplines there is guidance on what is needed to be productive, successful writers; but in other disciplines there is no training, support or mentoring of any kind. This book helps those in both groups not only to improve their writing skills and strategies, but, equally importantly, to find satisfaction in engaging in regular and productive writing.

Underpinned by a diverse range of literature, this book addresses the different dimensions of writing. The fresh approach that Murray and Moore explore in this book includes developing rhetorical knowledge, focusing on writing behaviours and understanding writing contexts.

This book will help writers in academic contexts to develop a productive writing strategy, not only for research monitoring exercises, but also for the long term.