HIST 1122 - Hensley (Paulding) - Spring 2018: The Write Up

Cheeky, original, and decidedly practical to boot, Sin Boldly! is unlike any other writing handbook available. Jammed with sage advice, genuine encouragement, and surprising examples (of how to write and how not to write), this book gives beginning writers and confident students alike an easy-to-follow roadmap for improving one of the most important skills for success.

Berger’s slim, user-friendly volume on academic writing is a gift to linguistically-stressed academics. Author speaks to junior scholars and graduate students about the process and products of academic writing. He differentiates between business writing skills for memos, proposals, and reports, and the scholarly writing that occurs in journals and books. He offers suggestions on how to best structure various forms of documents for effective communication. Written in friendly, personal style, he shows by example that academics can write good, readable prose in a variety of genres.