ABSTRACT
This book is about creating research writing that is useful, believable, and interesting. Toward that end, we connect what we’ve learned through our own writing of research with the strivings of others, both experienced and novice, who are trying to understand how writing helps us compose and represent meaning from data. However, this book is not a treatise on theories and strategies about writing in general. Many others have produced these, and we’d only create detours and possibly some ennui and irritation were we to go down that path. Our aim in this book, our contract with you, our readers, is to highlight those aspects of writing that help us compose meaning from our research data and present it in meaningful ways for others.
