A Practical Writing Guide for Academic Librarians :Keeping It Short and Sweet ( Chandos Information Professional Series )

Publication subTitle :Keeping It Short and Sweet

Publication series :Chandos Information Professional Series

Author: Langley   Anne;Wallace   Jonathan  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 2010

E-ISBN: 9781780630342

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781843345336

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781843345336

Subject: H315 Writing, Rhetoric

Keyword: 信息与知识传播

Language: ENG

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Description

Mastering the skills necessary for clear, effective writing can make writing tasks flow more easily. This book helps academic librarians who are new to the profession or new to a supervisory or management position, as well as those who want to be more productive and make the their writing for work go more smoothly. From progress reports to project plans, cover letters to case studies and book reviews to blogging, readers will find examples and how-tos for most of the types of writing they need to do in their academic library careers.

  • Discusses the importance of style and audience
  • Analyzes and guides the reader through the types of writing that academic librarians use in their everyday work
  • Includes information on presenting data: specifically, tables, graphs and charts

Chapter

About the authors

1 Introduction

What to expect from this book

Our goals as writers

2 Style: short and sweet

Why short and sweet?

What is style?

Revising: the key to improving your style

Wordy phrases

Verbs and action

Jargon

Clichés and platitudes

Active voice versus passive voice

Redundancy

Qualifiers

How thinking about style helps us revise

Note

3 Audience

Identifying your audience

Revising for an audience

How thinking about audience helped us revise this book

Help with audience

Note

4 Getting and keeping a job

Letters of recommendation

Cover letters

Résumés

Self-assessments

Thank-you notes

Final thoughts

Note

5 Meetings and reports

Minutes

Formal reports

Annual reports

Project proposals

Project plans

Final thoughts

6 Managing

Performance reviews

Employee documentation

Job descriptions

Search committee reports

Budget requests

Final thoughts

7 Public services and collections

Subject guides (pathfinders)

Collection assessments

Memos or letters to faculty about library collections

External reviews

Marketing tools (bookmarks, brochures, posters)

Final thoughts

8 Online and presenting data

Writing for the website

Blogging

E-mail

Tables, charts, graphs

9 Scholarly work and teaching

Articles

Abstracts

Case studies

Syllabi

Handouts

Final thoughts

10 More resources for writing

People resources

Print resources

Style guides

Index

About the authors

1 Introduction

2 Style: short and sweet

3 Audience

4 Getting and keeping a job

5 Meetings and reports

6 Managing

7 Public services and collections

8 Online and presenting data

9 Scholarly work and teaching

10 More resources for writing

Index

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