Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

Preface: Who

Part One: Why
1. Reasons for Writing
2. Writing About Feelings
3. Some Feelings About Writing in Public; Some Reasons for a Counterpublic Humanities
4. “But Is It Any Good?”: Or, Some Feminist Questions About Academic Writing

Part Two: How
5. You Have to Practice
6. Who Is Your Girl and Where Is She Going?
7. You Write with Your Body, Which Keeps the Score
8. Pitches and Abstracts: Or, Some Ways of Building Worlds with Words
9. Know Your Noun
10. Arguments and Other Stories
11. The Subject of the Sentence
12. Give the Pull Quote
13. Burden of Proof
14. Red Rage
15. A Short Note About When We Don’t Need Your Thoughtful Essay
16. Critical Distance
17. Elements of Teaching Style
18. Elements of Teaching Style, Redux: Against the Thesis Statement
19. Small Acts of Finishing
20. Writing in Time
Coda: Hospitality

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index