Chapter Summary

This chapter emphasizes scholarly writing and strategic thinking about writing and presenting for the many audiences for scholarly research – scholarly organizations, interest groups and news media.

Chapter Objectives

This chapter will help you:

• Identify the major publics for research writing and explain why each of them is important.
• Describe the format and style of a conventional scholarly research report.
• Explain why the format and style of scholarly reports are necessary when writing for a scholarly audience.
• Compare and contrast writing for interest groups with writing for news media.
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the web as a publication medium for research.
• List the steps in bringing raw research data into scholarly publication format.
• Explain, with examples, how reporting research findings can have ethical implications.