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How to Write Well and Why We Must: Academic Writing As If Readers Matter by Leonard Cassuto is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is How to Write Well and Why We Must: Academic Writing As If Readers Matter about?
A guide to writing with the reader in mind If you want people to read your writing, it has to be readable. In Academic Writing as if Readers Matter , Leonard Cassuto offers academic writers a direct, practical prescription for writing that will be read and understood: Take care of your reader. With a wealth of examples from the arts and sciences, this short, witty book provides invaluable advice to writers at all levels, in all fields, on how to write better for both specialized and broad audiences. Good academic writing depends on connecting with readers, earning their time and attention. Cassuto offers tips and advice on how to sharpen arguments and make complex ideas compelling. He addresses the workings of introductions and conclusions, transitions, signposts, paragraphs, and sentences—all the building blocks of academic writing. He also shows how storytelling and metaphor can make your prose more engaging than you thought possible. And he explains the proper use of that most dangerous of tools: jargon. This book can make any academic writer—including you—into a better writer. That means becoming a better communicator of the ideas and discoveries you want the world to grasp.
Who reads How to Write Well and Why We Must: Academic Writing As If Readers Matter?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Leonard Cassuto
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691263601
- Category
- nonfiction
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