The Future of Scholarly Writing

This stimulating collection is the first to take on the issue of form and what it means to the future of scholarly writing. A wide range of distinguished scholars from fields including law, literature, and anthropology shed light on the ways scholars can write for different publics and still adhere to the standards of quality scholarship.

A provocative discussion about the past, present, and uncertain future of academic writing. Offering concrete strategies that can be easily adopted, this book shifts the approach to scholarship and scholarly writing by treating how we write as seriously as what we write Part of Palgrave Macmillan's Campaign for the Humanities

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Ruth Behar, University of Michigan, USA Michael Billig, Loughborough University, UK Rita Charon, Columbia University, USA Kate Nace Day, Suffolk University, USA Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA Anna Grimshaw, Emory University, USA Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA Ralph Hummel, Retired Scholar, USA Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota, USA Susan McClary, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University, USA Lisa Ruddick, University of Chicago, USA Naomi Scheman, University of Minnesota, USA Leo Spitzer, Columbia University, USA Carolyn Steedman, University of Warwick, UK Camilla Stivers, Cleveland State University, USA Paul Stoller, West Chester University, USA

Inhalt

Introduction; Angelika Bammer and Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres 1. The Work of Writing; Jane Gallop 2. Writers, Authors, and the Extraordinary Ordinary; Naomi Scheman 3. Tribal Rites: Academic-Speak and the Ambiguity of Belonging; Angelika Bammer 4. When Nothing Is Cool; Lisa Ruddick 5. Writing in the Clinic, or What Might Be Expressed; Rita Charon 6. Looking for the Right Path; Paul Stoller 7. Found in the Details: Thoughts About Particulars; Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres 8. The "State" and the "Plantation": Writing Differently; Gyanendra Pandey 9. Stories and the Language of Law; Kate Nace Day 10. "Life has a mind of its own": Public Administration and "The Soloist"; Ralph Hummel & Camilla Stivers 11. Undisciplined Practice: Experimenting with Anthropological Form; Anna Grimshaw 12. Big Words in Small Circles: Bad Writing and the Social Sciences; Michael Billig 13. A Discontinuous Voice; Amy Katz Kaminsky 14. First Person Plural: Notes on Voice and Collaboration; Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 15. Writing about Music - and the Music of Writing; Susan Mcclary 16. The Poetry of It (Writing History); Carolyn Kay Steedman 17. In the Meantime; Ruth Behar