Part pep talk, part practical advice, The Elements of Academic Style offers readers concrete suggestions on essential topics such as: how to create and maintain a writing schedule how to transition between the paragraphs, sections, and chapters of your project while also building an argument and how to effectively engage sources. While there is no telling whether graduate education in the humanities will include a course on writing, the good news is that Hayot’s book has emerged to fill that void, helping to assuage the fears of anyone who has ever felt unsure of how to start, push through, and revise an academic writing project. And yet, the difference between writing a college seminar paper and your first graduate school paper (or publishable article, or – gasp – your dissertation) can honestly feel as daunting as making that initial transition from high school to college writing. As graduate students, we are often tasked with teaching others to write, having become relatively adept at doing so ourselves. This was the same feeling I experienced upon reading the first few pages of Eric Hayot’s The Elements of Academic Style. I mean, why had no one handed me this book when I was in college? As I read through this small book filled with practical advice on how to write clear transitions and build an argument, I was thrilled by its clarity but also incredulous that I had somehow managed to get by without it. The first time I taught a course on academic writing, I was assigned Cathy Birkenstein and Gerald Graff ’s The Say, I Say as the core text for the class.
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