Style in Research Writing
- Are you looking for that sweet spot between style and clarity that will enhance your scholarly "voice"?
- Do you want to explore the interface between form and argument?
- Do you ever read your favourite academic author and think 'That's how I want to write'?
- Do you want to expand your expressive range and effectiveness?
If so, you might find some of the answers in the course Style in Research Writing.
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English 602
Style in research writing
MWP Post-doctoral fellows
Length of course
8 weeks, 12 hours:
First term: |
16 October
08 December 2023
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8 weeks
12 hours
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Time
Course starts on 18 October 2023
Wednesday
9:30 - 11:00
The overall aim of this course is to expand your expressive range and enhance scholarly "voice" and effectiveness.
By the end of this course you will:
- be able to make your stylistic voice sound clearly
- understand how syntax and vocabulary affect style
- understand how style affects the reader
Topics will include (according to participants’ needs and interests):
- information flow and how to modulate it by using conventional and ‘marked’ (emphatic) sentence structures
- active vs. passive voice (reasons for using or not)
- I/we as part of a scholar’s ‘rhetorical toolkit’
- typical tense use in different parts of the research paper
- other topic(s) indicated as relevant by participants in the pre-course task that will be sent to all participants
Methods & Learning Activities
This course takes the participants' own research writing and that of established scholars in their fields as a starting point to explore the interface between form (grammar/syntax), style/rhetoric and argumentative structure.
Laurie Anderson, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Siena, and part-time Professor at the Max Weber Programme, and has published extensively on academic writing and publishing. She has also co-edited several volumes on academic communication.
Page last updated on 20 November 2023