Christian Academic Writing

"Clear, practical, and encouraging"This concise guide to writing in Christian academic settings offers twelve practices and principles for becoming a successful writer."The difference between a good writer and a great writer is that great writers deliberately seek to improve their writing skills. Merkle and Miles offer terrific tips and techniques that aspiring and accomplished writers will return to time and time again."--Michael F. Bird, Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia"Christian Academic Writing is both practical and inspiring. I will recommend this book often."--Karen Swallow Prior, author of The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis"An excellent and valuable book. I wish it had been available forty years ago! It is clear, practical, and encouraging. Merkle and Miles provide a strategy to keep you in the game of writing. Scholar and student alike will be well served by this work."--Daniel L. Akin, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary"Writers of all levels will find help in this book. It is filled with guidance for those trying to get started, hope for those who feel stuck, and ideas for those who have published for decades."--Chris Morgan, School of Christian Ministries, California Baptist University"If you're new to the professoriate and wondering how you'll stay in the writing groove you inhabited during graduate school, or you've been a teacher or administrator or in another professional role for a while and have lost the momentum but not the desire, this is the book for you. Plenty of encouragement, plenty of advice, plenty of wisdom."--Michael Kibbe, Great Northern University