A Guide to Academic Writing

How to Tame Your Essay
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-65011-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

A Guide to Academic Writing: How to Tame Your Essay presents a holistic approach to writing in academia. To master academic writing, it is not enough to learn specific rules and conventions. Writers need to break down the process of writing and see how its various components, from researching to drafting, influence the final outcome. They must also understand how their emotions, social interactions, behavioural patterns, and attitudes to their craft impact their writing. How to Tame your Essay offers this training.

At the heart of the book is a four-week course with each week dedicated to a specific aspect of the writer’s training, and each day dedicated to one of the five components of the writing process. The course is supplemented by additional materials called ‘weekend readings’, featuring personal stories about writing challenges, reflections on conversations with students and discussions of writing samples.

The book aims to empower students throughout their writing journey, offering a solid framework for improving their approach to writing in addition to warm advice and stories born of many years of tutoring, teaching, and writing.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruppo, Irina

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

The Structure Of This Book: The Two Models

How To Use This Book: Choose Your Path

Week One: the Craft of Writing.

Week Two: Good Habits

Week Three: Writing and Feelings

Week Four: Writing And The Social Sphere

Appendix: Guides on specific Writing Issues

Über Autor(innen)

Irina Ruppo is a lecturer in English and manager of the Academic Writing Centre at University of Galway. She is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Trinity College Dublin, and University of Galway. Her interests include academic writing pedagogy, literary reception studies, and translation.