Description

Research is a conversation. Every scholar must become a professional writer. But how do we learn these things? Most graduate school programs do not include a writing course and books on how to write are read even less than other types of books. Is good writing maybe all either genetics or just experience? Or does it depend on how we approach research, either phenomena- or theory-driven? We think both things matter – but there are also some practical steps people can take to get their writing going and maintain the flow of writing.

Episode Reading List

• Huff, A. S. (1998). Writing for Scholarly Publication. Sage.
• Berente, N. (2022). The 9 Sentence Introduction. https://twitter.com/nberente/status/1580948164504190982.
• Recker, J., Lukyanenko, R., Jabbari, M., Samuel, B. M., & Castellanos, A. (2021). From Representation to Mediation: A New Agenda for Conceptual Modeling Research in a Digital World. MIS Quarterly, 45(1), 269-300.
• Berente, N., & Yoo, Y. (2012). Institutional Contradictions and Loose Coupling: Postimplementation of NASA’s Enterprise Information System. Information Systems Research, 23(2), 376-396.
• Meyer, J. W., & Rowan, B. (1977). Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony. American Journal of Sociology, 83(2), 340-363.
• Berente, N., Kormylo, C., & Rosenkranz, C. (2024). Test-Driven Ethics for Machine Learning. Communications of the ACM, 67(forthcoming). https://doi.org/10.1145/3633455.
• Sauer, H. (2024). The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality. Profile Books.
• Skinner, B. F. (1948). Walden Two. Hackett Publishing Company.
• Berente, N. (2020). Agile Development as the Root Metaphor for Strategy in Digital Innovation. In S. Nambisan, K. Lyytinen, & Y. Yoo (Eds.), Handbook of Digital Innovation (pp. 83-96). Edward Elgar.
• Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors We Live By. The University of Chicago Press.
• Berente, N., Hansen, S., Pike, J. C., & Bateman, P. J. (2011). Arguing the Value of Virtual Worlds: Patterns of Discursive Sensemaking of an Innovative Technology. MIS Quarterly, 35(3), 685-709.
• Kane, G. C. (2022). How to Write an “A” Paper.Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23(5), 1071-1079.