Garreau imparts tips for academic writers

March 04, 2010

<a href="http://www.law.asu.edu/Apps/Faculty/Faculty.aspx?individual_id=66654">J… Garreau</a>, the Lincoln Professor of Law, Culture and Values and Director of The Prevail Project at the College of Law, recently participated in a panel, "Rethinking our Writing, Rewriting our Thinking," designed to help ASU faculty members bring their work to larger audiences.<separator></separator>A longtime editor of the opinion section at The Washington Post, Garreau said he and his colleagues knew immediately how to edit a submission from an academic.<separator></separator>"Before we even read it, we would go to his last paragraph and move it up to the top, because we knew that's where he'd buried his lede," he said.<separator></separator>Garreau, whose books include Edge City: Life on the New Frontier and Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies - and What It Means to Be Human, said he routinely writes about subjects where there is "a tall cliff between what the academic understands and my mother."<separator></separator>The workshop was presented by the Initiative for Innovative Inquiry, Hugh Downs School of Communication, Institute for Social Research, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. To read the full story, click <a href="http://asunews.asu.edu/20100302_facultywriting">here</a>.<separator…, who joined the College in 2010, is a student of culture, values and change. He is a former longtime reporter and editor at The Washington Post, and principal of The Garreau Group, a network of sources committed to understanding who we are, how we got that way, and where we're headed. Garreau is a fellow at The New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., an affiliate of The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford, a Science Journalism Laureate at Purdue University, and a member of the Global Business Network. Janie Magruder, <a href="mailto:Jane.Magruder@asu.edu">Jane.Magruder@asu.edu </a>(480) 727-9052 Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

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