Written ways to greater impact – rethinking text and purpose
Seminar with Magnus Linton
WaterCentre@KTH proudly invites you to a seminar with Magnus Linton, non-fiction writer and editor at the Institute for Futures Studies, who elaborates seven crucial points in his book Text and Style – Using Science in storytelling.
Time: Tue 2024-05-28 10.00 - 13.00
Location: Z21 (Multihallen), Valhallavägen 79, KTH Campus
Language: English
Participating: Magnus Linton
Taking the step from the academic writing template to essayistic prose is very much a question of rethinking one’s ideas about a text´s meaning. What is discouraged in a peer review article may be considered stylistically appropriate in writing aimed for wider publics. Which linguistic features typical of today’s academic writing should be avoided when the aim is to communicate with wider audiences?