The Future of Scholarly Writing [electronic resource] : Critical Interventions /
Bammer, Angelika.editor.
Boetcher Joeres, Ruth-Ellen.editor.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Jane Gallop: The work of writing -- Naomi Scheman: Writers, authors, and the extraordinary ordinary -- Angelika Bammer: Tribal rites: academic-speak and the ambiguity of belonging -- Lisa Ruddick: When nothing is cool -- Rita Charon: Writing in the clinic, or what might be expressed -- Paul Stoller: Looking for the right path -- Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres: Found in the details: thoughts about particulars -- Gyanendra Pandey: The "state" and the "plantation": writing differently -- Kate Nace Day: Stories and the language of law -- Ralph Hummel & Camilla Stivers: "Life has a mind of its own": public administration and "the soloist" -- Anna Grimshaw: Undisciplined practice: experimenting with anthropological form -- Michael Billig: Big words in small circles: bad writing and the social sciences -- Amy Katz Kaminsky: A discontinuous voice -- Marianne Hirsch & Leo Spitzer: First person plural: notes on voice and collaboration -- Susan McClary: Writing about music-and the music of writing -- Carolyn Kay Steedman: The poetry of it (writing history) -- Ruth Behar: In the meantime.
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.
Higher education.
Literature.
Educational sociology.
Higher Education.
Literature, general.
Sociology of Education.
Online version of the print publication