Refining your academic writing: strategies for reading, revising and rewriting

Table of Contents

Chapter-1.Why 'refining'?
Chapter-2.Refine with attitude
Chapter-3.Start at the beginning
Chapter-4.See your whole text
Chapter-5.Strengthen your argument
Chapter-6.Make your text trustworthy
Chapter-7.Write with authority
Chapter-8.Stating your case
Chapter-9.Quote and cite wisely
Chapter-10.Find your flow
Chapter-11.Tackle turgid prose
Chapter-12.Check your idiosyncrasies
Chapter-13.Delight your reader
Chapter-14.Afterword: tests and checklists

Revision is often taken as a largely instrumental process which happens after the real work of writing is done – it is an unavoidable and tedious process. Refining by contrast is imaginative work, it requires craft, connoisseurship and courage, and builds knowledge about academic writing purposes and practices. Refining Your Academic Writing will help you complete your writing project and provides a reading, revising and rewriting repertoire that you can adapt and add to. It offers ways to think about revision and a basic tool kit which will help you to identify what needs your attention and why.
This accessible book draws on and extends some of the most heavily used posts on Thomson’s popular academic writing blog Patter, as well as tried and tested writing workshops. Exercises and templates are grounded in research and theory on doctoral experience and academic writing. The wider context of academic writing is clearly explained, and the terms used to describe text refinement build understanding while challenging taken-for-granted assumptions about revision, editing and proof-reading.
Written with a light touch, this book is ideal reading for doctoral and early career researchers, and provides strategies needed to support the writing revision process.


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