Table of Contents The Academic Writer's Toolkit A User's Manual Arthur Asa Berger (Author) 176 pp. / 6.00 x 9.00 / Apr, 2008 Hardback (978-1-59874-138-4) Paperback (978-1-59874-139-1) Hardback ($79.00) Paperback ($22.95)    Related Interest   - Communications & Media Studies   - Education   - Higher Education Berger’s slim, user-friendly volume on academic writing is a gift to linguistically-stressed academics. Author of 60 published books, the author speaks to junior scholars and graduate students "An excellent how-to guide for anyone wanting clarification on what the expectations are for writing within different academic genres or advice on getting started on a writing project." - Jacqueline Bennett, SUNY College at Oneonta about the process and products of academic writing. He differentiates between business writing skills for memos, proposals, and reports, and the scholarly writing that occurs in journals and books. He has suggestions for getting the “turgid” out of turgid academic prose and offers advice on how to structure various kind of documents for effective communication. Written in Berger’s friendly, personal style, he shows by example that academics can write good, readable prose in a variety of genres.