The Future of Scholarly Writing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Angelika Bammer, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres

   Pages 1-27

3. The Work of Writing

   • Jane Gallop

   Pages 29-39

4. Writers, Authors, and the Extraordinary Ordinary

   • Naomi Scheman

   Pages 41-55

5. Tribal Rites

   • Angelika Bammer

   Pages 57-70

6. When Nothing Is Cool

   • Lisa Ruddick

   Pages 71-85

7. Writing in the Clinic, or What Might Be Expressed?

   • Rita Charon

   Pages 87-99

8. Looking for the Right Path

   • Paul Stoller

   Pages 101-110

9. Found in the Details

   • Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres

   Pages 111-125

10. The “State” and the “Plantation”: Writing Differently

    • Gyanendra Pandey

    Pages 127-136

11. Stories and the Language of Law

    • Kate Nace Day

    Pages 137-145

12. “Life Has a Mind of Its Own”

    • Ralph P. Hummel, Camilla Stivers

    Pages 147-154

13. Undisciplined Practice

    • Anna Grimshaw

    Pages 155-168

14. Big Words in Small Circles

    • Michael Billig

    Pages 169-175

15. A Discontinuous Voice

    • Amy Katz Kaminsky

    Pages 177-190

16. First-Person Plural

    • Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer

    Pages 191-204

17. Writing about Music—and the Music of Writing

    • Susan McClary

    Pages 205-214

18. The Poetry of It (Writing History)

    • Carolyn Kay Steedman

    Pages 215-226

19. In the Meantime

    • Ruth Behar

    Pages 227-228

20. Back Matter

    Pages 229-251

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This stimulating collection is the first to take on the issue of form and what it means to the future of scholarly writing. A wide range of distinguished scholars from fields including law, literature, and anthropology shed light on the ways scholars can write for different publics and still adhere to the standards of quality scholarship.

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• higher education
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“Representing disciplines across the humanities and social and natural sciences … the contributors acknowledge the importance of scholarly norms and discuss tensions between compliance and what writers want to say, how they want to say it, audience expectations, and intended outcomes. In addition, the authors explain how they challenge these norms and call for legitimate space to successfully convey the message. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (D. Truty, Choice, Vol. 54 (3), November, 2016)

“This book offers ways to move onward and forward, into the future of academic writing, of writing and thinking in general, and of the kind of work we aim to do as politically engaged intellectuals, scholars, and writers. … While it is a book about academic writing, it is also very much an academic book and an exampleof scholarship at its best: it is politically engaged, it inspires, and it calls for further inquiry.” (Maria Stehle, Women in German, 2016)

'Bammer and Boetcher Joeres have thrown a party and invited all the coolest people. The result is an inspiring and forward-looking book that urges scholars in the humanities and social sciences to reimagine the staid conventions of academic discourse and to approach the challenges of scholarly writing in a spirit of poetry, playfulness, and joy.' Helen Sword, Professor and Director of Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education (CLeaR), The University of Auckland, New Zealand and author of Stylish Academic Writing

"This is a wonderful book, from beginning to end. By turns funny and serious, personal and professional, its ideas and its practices of writing slyly and lovingly reshape ideas about what scholarly writers do, and what they might do if they were free." - Eric Hayot, Professor of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University, USA

"Bammer and Boetcher Joeres have thrown a party and invited all the coolest people. The result is an inspiring and forward-looking book that urges scholars in the humanities and social sciences to reimagine the staid conventions of academic discourse and to approach the challenges of scholarly writing in a spirit of poetry, playfulness, and joy." Helen Sword, Professor and Director of Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education (CLeaR), The University of Auckland, New Zealand

'This is a wonderful book, from beginning to end. By turns funny and serious, personal and professional, its ideas and its practices of writing slyly and lovingly reshape ideas about what scholarly writers do, and what they might do if they were free.' Eric Hayot, Professor of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University, USA and the author of The Elements of Academic Style

"This is a profoundly important book. As universities face multiple crises, from corporatization on the inside to charges of irrelevance from the outside, it is essential that scholars give as much attention to how they write as to whatthey write. Scholarship, especially in the humanities, is at risk of becoming meaningless unless we can communicate what is important about our work to a wide range of readers inside and outside the academy. The contributors to this volume provide many worthwhile paths to guide academic writing into the future." - Elaine Tyler May, Professor of American Studies and History, University of Minnesota, USA and author of America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation

Ruth Behar, University of Michigan, USA Michael Billig, Loughborough University, UK Rita Charon, Columbia University, USA Kate Nace Day, Suffolk University, USA Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA Anna Grimshaw, Emory University, USA Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA Ralph Hummel, Retired Scholar, USA Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota, USA Susan McClary, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University, USA Lisa Ruddick, University of Chicago, USA Naomi Scheman, University of Minnesota, USA Leo Spitzer, Columbia University, USA Carolyn Steedman, University of Warwick, UK Camilla Stivers, Cleveland State University, USA Paul Stoller, West Chester University, USA

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