The Academic Writer's Toolkit

A user-friendly volume on academic writing for linguistically-stressed junior scholars and graduate students. It discusses both the process and product s of academic writing, and how to best structure various forms of documents for effective communication. It also differentiates between business writing skills for memos, proposals, and reports, and the scholarly writing that occurs in journals and books. Written in a humorous, off-hand style, it show by example that academics can write good, readable prose in a variety of genres. -- Publisher description.