Writing geography
Teaching research writing and storytelling in the discipline
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4138925 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert M Wilson (Syracuse University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1450-1459 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308518x221088599 |
| OpenAlex | W4297956932 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 31 |
Writing is a vital activity for all academic geographers and essential to their success. But few graduate programs devote courses to teaching MA and PhD students how to write even though qualitative and quantitative methods courses are now commonplace. This article discusses some of the major critiques of academic writing and how I have sought to address these criticisms in Writing Geography, a graduate seminar I developed to help students improve their research writing
Academic writing · Engineering ethics · Graduate students · Literature · Mathematics education · Narrative · Pedagogy · Professional writing · Sociology · Storytelling · Engineering · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Psychology
Air & Light & Time & Space
Ambitious and Anxious
Understories
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Economic Geography
Houston, We Have a Narrative
The sense of style
Letters to a tenured historian
Under a White Sky
Teaching Qualitative Research
Teaching Graduate Students to Write
Demystifying Academic Writing
Making space to write ‘care-fully’
Where are the storytellers? A quest to (re)enchant geography through writing as method
Close Encounters
Learn to Write Badly
Economic geography
Storytelling
Writing economies and economies of writing
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |