Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: THE RESEARCH PROCESS AND THE ROLE OF ACADEMIC WRITING
Academic Writing and Research Process
Structure and Contents of a Research Paper
PART TWO: THE ANATOMY OF ACADEMIC WRITING
Good Academic Writing
Mastering the Paragraph
The Writing Process
PART THREE: ACKNOWLEDGING ACADEMIC DEBTS
Using and Citing Sources of Ideas
Appendix 1: Brief Descriptions of Some of the Research Terms Used
in Chapter 2
Appendix 2: Resources for Honing Academic Writing
References
Index
Mathukutty M. Monippally is Professor of Communication, Indian
Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. Earlier, he was with the
Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (now The English
and Foreign Languages University), Hyderabad. He received his PhD
from the University of Manchester, UK, in 1983.
His books for managers include The Craft of Business Letter Writing
and Business Communication Strategies. He is a coauthor of
Effective Communication for Sales Executives and Business and
Technical Writing in English.
Apart from teaching courses such as ‘Written Analysis and
Communication,’ ‘Spoken Business Communication,’ ‘Management
Communication’ and ‘Persuasive Communication’ at IIM Ahmedabad, he
also conducts workshops on different aspects of communication for
middle and senior managers. His research interests are in bad news
delivery, leadership communication and persuasive communication. He
has published papers and management cases in national and
international journals.
Badrinarayan Shankar Pawar was Professor, Organisational Behavior
and Human Resources, at the Indian Institute of Management
Kozhikode. He has taught at various institutes including Oklahoma
State University (mostly as a teaching associate during his PhD
studies), City University of Hong Kong (1997–2001), Indian
Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India (2001–2005), and XLRI
School of Business and Human Resources (2007–2008).
He has taught various subjects including human resource management,
organizational behavior-related subjects, business research
methods, research methods, and advanced research methods.
Dr Pawar received his PhD from Oklahoma State University in 1996.
He also received the membership of Phi Kappa Phi in recognition of
his academic performance in the PhD program.
His coauthored/solo academic works include papers published in
Academy of Management Review, Long Range Planning, Leadership and
Organization Development Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Best
Papers Proceedings of the Academy of Management, a chapter in
Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (2005, Nova Science
Publishers, Inc.), and paper presentations at the Academy of
Management. He has also served as the guest editor for a special
issue of Journal of Organizational Change Management on
Transformational Leadership (2004, Volume 17[2]). His recent work
on the topic of workplace spirituality includes one paper published
in the Leadership and Organization Development Journal in 2008 and
another paper published in Journal of Business Ethics in 2009.
His areas of research interests include organizational citizenship
behavior, transformational leadership, and workplace spirituality.
Using a lucid conversational style, the authors talk of the
challenges that most writers face and offer a systematic approach
to overcome it. Broadly divided in three parts, the book covers all
the essentials that go in the generation of academic
papers….Throughout the text, the authors have used extracts from
student assignments, making it more readable and comprehensible
from the student’s perspective. The elaborate analysis that follows
each extract helps the reader master the skill of reviewing not
only others’ works but also their own writing. While all the three
parts of the book are interconnected, each unit can be read and
assimilated as independent unit. Additional resources provided in
Appendix 2 are a valuable add-on. This small, crisp book can be
recommended for everyone who wants to master the skill of writing
well. It is a ‘must read’ for all management students and
researchers for whom project reports and term papers from part of
the academic curriculum.
*Global Business Review*
In days of rhetoric than logic, here comes a book of the latter
sorts on some aspects of the former. ‘Academic Writing’, so nice!
...When something comes well intended from two seasoned professors,
almost every aspect of it can be well worn…So if you are an MBA
student not wanting to get caught with the charges of plagiarism or
a PhD scholar in management trying to improve your bad writing, you
should read this book…. This book is…different from other books on
academic writing as it covers the basic and necessary requirements
of academic writing for the students of management.
*Decision*
Using a lucid conversational style, the authors talk of the
challenges that most writers face and offer a systematic approach
to overcome it. Broadly divided in three parts, the book covers all
the essentials that go in the generation of academic
papers….Throughout the text, the authors have used extracts from
student assignments, making it more readable and comprehensible
from the student’s perspective.
*Global Business Review*
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