Eric Hayot teaches graduate students & faculty in literary & cultural studies how to think & write like a professional scholar From granular concerns such as sentence structure & grammar to big-picture issues such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research & publishing & developing productive & rewarding writing habits Hayot helps ambitious students newly minted Ph D's & established professors shape their work & develop their voices Hayot does more than explain the techniques of academic writing He aims to adjust the writer's perspective encouraging scholars to think of themselves as makers & doers of important work Scholarly writing can be frustrating & exhausting yet also satisfying & crucial & Hayot weaves these experiences including his own trials & tribulations into an ethos for scholars to draw on as they write Combining psychological support with practical suggestions for composing introductions & conclusions developing a schedule for writing using notes & citations & structuring paragraphs & essays this guide to the elements of academic style does its part to rejuvenate scholarship & writing in the humanities