How Writing Works

A Field Guide to Effective Writing
3. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-15808-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This is an engaging and practical introduction to the elements of grammar, sentence structure, and style that you need to write well across a range of academic, creative, and professional contexts, deftly combining practical strategies with scholarly principles. It provides a broad-ranging, substantial, and compelling introduction to the elements of writing in contemporary academic, creative, and professional workplaces.

This book includes advice on reading, word choice, grammar, sentence structure and style, paragraphing, structuring and designing text, punctuation, academic and workplace documents, content for social media, revising, editing, and proofreading. Advice, which, if followed, will result in rhetorically-sophisticated, stylistically and structurally accomplished writers. Featuring explicit and systematic strategies grounded in scholarly principles, this book takes into account the recent potential contribution of artificial intelligence (GenAI) to the writing arena. The book contains a wide range of resources, with rich cultural and literary print and online references. It also features practical activities supplemented by support materials online.

Zielgruppe

Adult education, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petelin, Roslyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. How writing works 2. How reading works 3. How words work 4. How sentences and content words work 5. How structure words and paragraphs work 6. How punctuation works 7. How structure and design work 8. How genres and workplace documents work 9. How academic research and writing work 10. How digital writing works 11. How revising, editing, and proofreading work

Über Autor(innen)

Roslyn Petelin is an honorary associate professor at the University of Queensland, where she designed and initiated the award-winning postgraduate program in Writing, Editing, and Publishing and developed the hugely successful international online course WRITE101X English Grammar and Style. She is an honorary fellow in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and consults to government and international organisations on writing, editing, and information design. She is co-author of The Professional Writing Guide and Professional Communication.