Well, it’s not just mine — it’s co-authored with my excellent colleague Gail Craswell, but I got your attention, hey? So exciting!
So, if you’re a graduate student wanting to improve your writing and research, this is the book for you (sales pitch, there). The second edition (I had nothing to do with the first — it’s all Gail, and she’s excellent and knows heaps and heaps) provides a lot of new material about working in online contexts — setting up blogs, wikis, e-portfolios etc., and raising your online profile. The cover looks a bit like a Red Cross first aid manual, but I like it.
Here’s the blurb:
“Writing for Academic Success is a vital practical guide for any postgraduate student. If you seek to manage your writing effectively, reduce stress, and improve your confidence and efficiency, this book is for you. The authors show you how to acquire communicative rigor in research essays, reports, book and article reviews, exam papers, research proposals, and literature reviews, through to thesis writing, posters and papers for presentation and publication.
This second edition has been fully revised to reflect the online learning explosion. The authors provide insightful new material about how to work productively in different online contexts such as with blogs and wikis, setting up an e-portfolio, and raising an online profile. They also set out a focused guide to issues unique to digital communication, and working with and across different media and technologies.
The book includes advice on common writing concerns, cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary practices, a list of helpful words and phrases, and subject-specific examples of writing ranging from economics to philosophy to medicine. Writing for Academic Success is essential for graduate students both in taught courses and conducting research, and is also very useful for upper-level undergraduates.”
Tags: academic skills, publications
October 19, 2011 at 6:53 am |
Congratulations Meg – great achievement!
October 19, 2011 at 7:11 am |
Hey, thanks, Misty
. One down, one to go … My best practice guide to social media will be out in 2012, also published by Sage. Almost finished my first draft on that one … So exciting!
February 6, 2012 at 11:50 pm |
Wow!! Congratulation to my mentor in Blog ^^V