Posts Tagged ‘academic writing’

Writing Exercise: The Five x Five

Figuring out the best structure for your project is a vital part of the writing process.  For most academic historians, the basic structures for journal articles, masters’ theses/Ph.D. dissertations, and books are pre-determined: an introduction with a descriptive opening, a historiographical turn, and then argument-driven sections, followed by a conclusion.  For historians . . .

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Is There a Future For Creative Academic Writing in Academia?

There’s been a lot of talk lately about how and why academics should write for “public audiences.” By this we usually mean that academics turn from the usual professional audience (fellow historians, in my case) and seek to engage non-academics who have an interest in the subject at hand. This discussion – . . .

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