Academic Writing: A Conversational Approach
When should you stop your reading and planning and start writing? Many new academic authors get this wrong and consequently have to discard their work and redraft. Stephen Mumford has developed a methodical approach to writing over a number of years that allows efficient use of time and careful planning before writing. He will explain the method and its advantages. It can be used for papers, books, theses and is well-suited for co-authoring. It involves all the planning being completed before any drafting takes place, with peer feedback being solicted and incorporated early in the process. The approach, usually referred to as the
Mumford Method, has been adopted by a number of authors around the world.
Biography
Stephen Mumford is Professor of Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham UK. He is the author of Dispositions (Oxford, 1998), Russell on Metaphysics (Routledge, 2003), Laws in Nature (Routledge, 2004), David Armstrong (Acumen, 2007), Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion (Routledge, 2011), Getting Causes from Powers (Oxford, 2011 with Rani Lill Anjum), Metaphysics: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2012) and Causation: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2013 with Rani Lill Anjum). He was editor of George Molnar's posthumous Powers: a Study in Metaphysics (Oxford, 2003) and Metaphysics and Science (Oxford, 2013 with Matthew Tugby). His PhD was from the University of Leeds in 1994 and he has been at Nottingham since 1995 having served as Head of the Department of Philosophy and Head of the School of Humanities.