You don't have to be a creative writer to use the tips in this episode of WriteCast! Join writing instructors Max and Claire for a discussion of creative writing strategies--such as knowing where you're going and how you're going to get there, writing exploratory drafts, anticipating audience response, getting a secondary reader, and understanding deconstruction--that you can use to strengthen your academic writing.
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In this episode, we mention a few blog post resources that may be helpful in conjunction with this episode:
APA Documentation Style in Scholarly Narrative Writing
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We had a very interesting comment about this WriteCast episode come in from a listener in Canada, Jeff C. Jeff speculated on the ability (or inability) of scholarly writing to be interesting which was in response to Claire’s point that "there is a built in interest level for readers of scholarly work." Jeff rightly noted that sometimes scholarly work can be difficult to engage with as a reader, despite this prerequisite interest from readers.
ReplyDeleteJeff’s comment inspired plenty of conversation among the WriteCast production team and throughout the Writing Center, so here is part of Claire’s response to Jeff:
“I think that you’re absolutely correct that there is room to engage the reader in academic writing. Academic writers can do this by connecting ideas in new ways and using engaging sentence structures among other techniques… I agree that ideally academic ideas are accessible to all in multiple forums—and I think that there are many of those formats out today bridging that gap. These scholarly/creative hybrids are written with more creative approaches often based heavily in research and fact. There are also many creative nonfiction writers who are also scientists and researchers, like Barbara Hurd and Diane Ackerman, both of whom mix history and science with personal essay and reflection. I encourage you to check out these new forums where creative approaches to writing can mesh with fact-based research.”
Thank you very much, Jeff from Canada for taking the time to comment on the episode. And thanks for listening! Keep writing. Keep inspiring!
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