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Doing Academic Writing in Education Connecting the Personal and the Professional Doing Academic Writing in Education Connecting the Personal and the Professional Janet C. Richards University of South Florida Sharon K. Miller University of Arizona LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS 2005 Mahwah, New Jersey London This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Copyright © 2005 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedin anyform,byphotostat,microform,retrievalsystem,orany other means, without prior written permission of the pub- lisher. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 10 Industrial Avenue Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 www.erlbaum.com Cover design by Kathryn Houghtaling Lacey Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Richards, Janet C. Doingacademicwritingineducation:connectingthepersonal and the professional / Janet C. Richards, Sharon K. Miller. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8058-4839-8 (cloth :alk. paper) ISBN 0-8058-4840-1 (pbk. :alk. paper) 1. Education—Authorship. 2. Academic writing. I. Miller, Sharon K. II. Title. LB2369.R52 2005 808’.06607—dc22 2005040027 CIP ISBN 0-4106-1341-0 Master e-book ISBN Dedication To writers everywhere—to Joshua, Noah, Madeline, and Elizabeth, who I love dearly, and to my colleagues and students from whom I learn every day. JCR To Jim, who has always been there for me, and to my colleagues in the National Writing Project communities from whom I continue to learn. SKM Brief Contents Foreword xvii Donald M. Murray Preface xix Contributing Writer-Educators xxvii About the Authors xxxi 1 Seeing Ourselves as Writers: A Process of Personal 1 Discovery 2 Types and Purposes of Academic Writing 28 3 Invention 63 4 Drafting 100 5 Revision: The Heart of Writing 127 6 Editing 154 vii viii BRIEF CONTENTS 7 Integrating the Personal and the Professional 179 References 199 Author Index 207 Subject Index 211 Contents Foreword xvii Donald M. Murray Preface xix Our Reasons for Writing This Book xix We Wrote This Book for Educators Who Want to Write Well xx Distinctive Features xxi How to Use the Book xxii Acknowledgments xxiv Contributing Writer-Educators xxvii About the Authors xxxi 1 Seeing Ourselves as Writers: A Process 1 of Personal Discovery Getting to Know Us 2 Becoming a Writer 3 Early Writing Experiences 3 Some Teachers May Take Too Much Control of Students’ Writing 5 Teachers Can Make a Positive Difference 8 ix
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