-
Seasonal Offer:
This title is part of our Seasonal Offers promotion.
Writing for Academic Journals (Study Skills)
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £7.75
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Writing for Academic Journals for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £7.75, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
"Academics are expected to write but seldom consider and discuss the nature of academic writing. As a result, the practice is shrouded in mystery. Writing for Academic Journals makes explicit much of what is normally opaque and it should be among the first ports of call for any academic who is contemplating getting published. This new edition achieves the near-impossible: improving on what was already acknowledged as a first-rate compendium".
Professor Ronald Barnett, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Professor Ronald Barnett, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
"Our experience is that Rowena's practical approach works for busy academic staff. Not only does it enable them to increase their publication output and meet deadlines, but it boosts enthusiasm for writing and stimulates creative thinking."
Kate Morss, Director, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, UK
"How many of us find the prospect of writing for an academic journal a daunting task so intimidating that barely an undetectable degree of arm twisting is required to further relegate the task to an ever lower position on our priority list? Sound familiar? Well look no further, those woes may be on the run thanks to this well thought-out and very readable short book."
Ian Pearce,Consultant Urological Surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary
This book unravels the process of writing academic papers. It tells readers what good papers look like and how they can be written.
Busy academics must develop productive writing practices quickly. No one has time for trial and error. To pass external tests of research output we must write to a high standard while juggling other professional tasks. This may mean changing our writing behaviours.
Writing for Academic Journals, Second Edition, has been comprehensively updated to include the most recent research and theory in order to provide new knowledge on writing across the disciplines. Drawing on her extensive experience of running writing workshops and working closely with academics on developing writing, Rowena Murray offers practical and tested strategies for good academic writing.
About the Author
Rowena Murray is Associate Dean (Research) at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. She carries out research on writing, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and British Academy. Her other bestselling books with Open University Press include How to Write a Thesis, How to Survive Your Viva and The Handbook of Academic Writing (written with Sarah Moore). Rowena is also Editor of the Helping Students to Learn Series and edited the first volume - The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The title of this book alone will probably ensure a degree of success and rightly so. How many of us find the prospect of writing for an academic journal a daunting task so intimidating that barely an undetectable degree of arm twisting is required to further relegate the task to an ever lower position on our priority list? Sound familiar? Well look no further, those woes may be on the run thanks to this well thought-out and very readable short book. The 288 pages are divided into nine chapters, the first of which addresses the golden question: "Why?" -Why write? What do authors gain? What does the professional community gain? Is the effort worth the toil? This book has some, maybe not all, the answers, all logically set down in an easy to assimilate format with liberal use of tables and bullet points. This is standard format used throughout the nine chapters, each of which is further divided into yet smaller sections, each addressing a particular pertinent issue. From the initial chapter on why to write, the book moves through an assessment of one's target audience / journal and onto the preparation of a draft manuscript, the revision and the response to various reviewer feedback. All of this is of great value and one could easily imagine having to answer the question of why write for academic journals in an interview at any stage of one's career path. Famous, and perhaps not so famous, quotes are included throughout the book serving to lighten what could possibly become a less than bright mood depending upon one's thoughts on publishing. At the end of each chapter lies a check list and suggestions for further reading, complemented at the end of the book by the presence of a bibliography. I thought that on the whole this was a decent book with a lot of valuable information and thought provoking concepts. It makes the reader think prior to doing rather than just doing which we are all probably guilty of at some stage in life. I'm sure that for anyone starting off in this venture, this book will be an invaluable aid, for those with perhaps more experience, a copy in the unit library will undoubtedly suffice.
Reviewed by: Mr Ian Pearce, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Reviewed by: Mr Ian Pearce, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The book is well-organized and offers some really good tips. The author gave us a workshop before and that is how I knew this book.
Format:Paperback
Rowena Murray's books are smart, thoughtful, practical guides to getting it done (and getting it done well). Want to get published? Get this book.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
