02923cam a22004218i 4500 21145998 BJBSDDR 20250528114846.0 ta 190806s2020 ncu b 001 0 eng 2019033525 9781478006275 (pbk.) 1478006277 (pbk.) 9781478007197 (ebook) LBSOR/DLC eng DLC rda eng pcc P 301.5 K96e 2020 808.06/6378 Kumar, Amitava, 1963- 42250 Every day I write the book : notes on style / Amitava Kumar. Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: The 90-day book Self-help Writing a book : a brief history Credos Form Academic interest Style Exercises The groves of academe Materials Appendix A: Ten rules of writing Appendix B: PEN Ten interview "Every day I write the book, a guide to style and writing for academics, is Amitava Kumar's fifth book of creative nonfiction with Duke University Press. Written in short first-person vignettes, this book melds form and content to explore the writing process both in and out of the academy, while offering a portrait of Kumar's writing life throughout. Kumar, whose background is in literary theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory, has long been a critic of academic writing and an advocate for academics to write in a more 'writerly' style. This book is an attempt to bring together reflections on Kumar's own writing style and models used by other academics. It notably collects firsthand testimony on writing from many established writers and academics-Anna Tsing, Jack Halberstam, Rob Nixon, and Kathleen Stewart, to name a few-and engages with the work of contemporary nonfiction writers such as Geoff Dyer, Claudia Rankine, and Maggie Nelson. The book is divided into nine sections-each with several sub-chapters-and two appendixes: Kumar's "Ten Rules of Writing" and a reprinted PEN 10 interview. It will be of wide interest to readers of creative nonfiction, as well as to scholars and students of writing and rhetoric"-- Provided by publisher. Academic writing. Escritura académica 26838 English language Rhetoric. Inglés Retórica 1224 Online version: Kumar, Amitava, 1963- Every day I write the book. Durham : Duke University Press, 2020 9781478007197 (DLC) 2019033526 0 vip orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 123582 123582 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-05-26 0 P 301.5 K96e 2020 00000192832 2025-05-26 00:00:00 1 2025-05-26 BK