Writing in the Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities
الكلمات المفتاحية:
writing، disciplines، humanities، science، argument، construction، academicsالملخص
Writing is the most important tool of academic communication. It is the medium we need to write dissertations, conference presentations, book chapters, and journal articles, to mention but a few. All these activities attest that writing is central to the academic and professional development of faculty members. However, research findings reveal that it abounds life-long doubts, false starts, frustrations, procrastinations and the feeling that we are not yet ready to write. In this connection, the purpose of this paper is four-fold: to highlight the writing challenges in the humanities; to give insight into the scholarly writing conventions in the humanities; to unfold the methodological decisions made by researchers in the humanities; and to assess the reliability of scientific evidence in the humanities.
