Subject: [EDRESMETH-L] How To Write Good From: Gene Glass Date: 5/8/2013 6:35 PM To: EDRESMETH-L@LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU Strunk & WHite might be the undergrad's guide to good writing, but Jacques Barzun's Simple & Direct is surely the postgraduate textbook. http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Direct-Jacques-Barzun/dp/0060937238 ________________________________ Gene V Glass Emeritus Regents' Professor Arizona State University ________________________________________ From: Educational Research Methodology List [EDRESMETH-L@LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU] on behalf of Richard Hake [rrhake@EARTHLINK.NET] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 1:32 PM To: EDRESMETH-L@LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU Subject: How To Write Good Some subscribers to EdResMeth might be interested in a recent post "How To Write Good" [Hake (2013)]. The abstract reads: ********************************************* ABSTRACT: Physoc's Art Hobson, in a post "Once more time: Writing tips" alerted readers to (a) the abstract and the slides he had shown for a 2009 APS talk "Writing about, and teaching, physics for non-scientists"; and (b) two recommendations - (1) "The Craft of Scientific Writing" [Alley (1996)] at , and (2) "The Elements of Style" [Strunk & White (2000)] at . To Hobson's recommendations I would add: (3) the "AIP Style Manual" [AIP (1997)] at ; (4) "Intellectual Journey: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom - Conversations with John Kenneth Galbraith - The Art of Good Writing" [Kreisler (1986)] at ; (5) "The Technique of Clear Writing" [Gunning (1968)] at . (6) "Draft No. 4: Replacing the words in boxes" [McPhee (2013)] at . Q. So "HOW'm I DOin' " after having been exposed to the above 6 guides to writing good? A. NOT BAD! The first 489 words of this post have a Gunning Fog Index of 8.8, cf. 11.9 for the first 530 words of Hemingway's masterpiece "The Sun Also Rises" ! ; - ) ********************************************* To access the complete 14 kB post please click on . Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University Links to Articles: Links to Socratic Dialogue Inducing (SDI) Labs: Academia: Blog: GooglePlus: Google Scholar: Twitter: Facebook: "We are all apprentices of a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway (1961) REFERENCES [URL's shortened by and accessed on 08 May 2013.] Hake, R.R. 2013. "How To Write Good," online on the OPEN! Net-Gold archives at . Post of 7 May 2013 20:00:15 -0700. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists and are on my blog "Hake'sEdStuff" at with a provision for comments. Hemingway, E. 1961. New York Journal-American, 11 July. Educational Research and Methodology Listserv ----------------------------------------------------------------- List Service Info http://listserv.uconn.edu To cancel your subscription address click please do the following: SEND an email to the following address: mailto (colon) listserv (at) listserv (dot) uconn (dot) edu Your email should contain only the message UNSUB EDRESMETH-L. Address problems with your subscription to: ethan.arenson@uconn.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- Educational Research and Methodology Listserv ----------------------------------------------------------------- List Service Info http://listserv.uconn.edu To cancel your subscription address click please do the following: SEND an email to the following address: mailto (colon) listserv (at) listserv (dot) uconn (dot) edu Your email should contain only the message UNSUB EDRESMETH-L. Address problems with your subscription to: ethan.arenson@uconn.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------