Research Guides: AMES 493/APIA 499: Senior Research in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies & Asian and Pacific Islander American Studies: Guidance for Writing and Citing

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W&M Writing Resource Center Re:Sources for Writing
Why Academic Writing Stinks and How To Fix It
A series of essays about academic writing - why it is so dry and inaccessible, and how to write academically but with style.

The Sense of Style: the thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century by Steven Pinker
ISBN: 9780670025855
Publication Date: 2014-09-30
From the author of Enlightenment Now, a short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker. Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better?
Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword
ISBN: 9780674064485
Publication Date: 2012-04-02
For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read--and to write.