Refining Your Academic Writing: Strategies for Reading, Revising and Rewriting

Revision is an essential process in academic writing, but it can be tedious. Refining Your Academic Writing helps you complete your writing project by providing a reading, revising, and rewriting repertoire. It offers ways to think about revision and a basic tool kit to help you identify what needs your attention. The book is ideal for doctoral and early-career researchers and provides strategies to support the writing revision process. The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' series provides practical and realistic guidance to doctoral students and early-career researchers, addressing the topics that often get overlooked.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 228 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Revision is frequently perceived as a predominantly instrumental endeavor that transpires subsequent to the actual act of writing. It is an unavoidable and laborious process. By contrast, refining is an imaginative endeavor that necessitates craftsmanship, connoisseurship, and courage, and it contributes to the acquisition of knowledge regarding academic writing purposes and practices.

Refining Your Academic Writing will assist you in successfully completing your writing project and furnish you with a comprehensive reading, revising, and rewriting repertoire that you can customize and augment. It provides insights into the revision process and offers a fundamental tool kit that will enable you to identify areas that require your attention and the underlying reasons behind them.

This accessible book draws upon and extends some of the most widely utilized posts on Thompson's popular academic writing blog, Patter, as well as proven and effective writing workshops. The exercises and templates are grounded in research and theory related to doctoral experiences and academic writing. The broader context of academic writing is elucidated, and the terms employed to describe text refinement foster understanding while challenging prevailing assumptions about revision, editing, and proofreading.

Written in a lighthearted manner, this book is particularly suitable for doctoral and early-career researchers, offering strategies essential to facilitate the writing revision process.

The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' series provides invaluable support and practical guidance to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that genuinely matter but often go unnoticed, this indispensable series offers practical and realistic guidance to address numerous needs and challenges associated with navigating and sustaining a career in academia.

These concise pocket guides effectively fill specific and significant gaps in the current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules governing the academic realm.

Weight: 238g
Dimension: 124 x 185 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367468767