How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing

Timothy G. Pollock, Haslam Chair in Business, Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Kinney Family Faculty Research Fellow, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA

‘In this timely and updated second edition of How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing: Techniques for Engaging Readers and Successfully Navigating the Writing and Publishing Processes, Professor Tim Pollock draws on fiction and non-fiction writing tools and techniques to help academic authors enhance the clarity, presentation and flow of their scholarly work. With new chapters focusing on the intricacies of writing developmental reviews and dissertations, the second edition of How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing provides comprehensive discussions illustrating the structural and stylistic factors involved in effective storytelling and how to apply them in writing each section of an academic article. The second edition also expands on important topics such as managing the co-authoring, writing and review processes.’

• ContentsAbout the author Preface to the second edition 1 Introduction: think like a storyteller 2 Structuring a story 3 Storytelling tools4 The building blocks of storytelling: words, sentences andparagraphs 5 Introductions, titles and abstracts 6 Theory and hypotheses7 Methods and results 8 Discussion section 9 What’s different about qualitative articles, theory articlesand book chapters 10 The writing process 11 The co-authoring process 12 Navigating the review process 13 Writing developmental reviews 14 Writing a dissertation 15 Other kinds of writing 16 Conclusion References Index