Monday, August 4, 2025

How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing: Techniques for Engaging Readers and Successfully Navigating the Writing and Publishing Processes

Timothy G Pollock
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Good writing skills and habits are critical for scholarly success. Every article is a story, and employing effective storytelling techniques enhances scholars’ abilities to share their insights and ideas, increasing the impact of their research.

In this timely second edition, Tim Pollock draws on fiction and non-fiction writing tools and techniques to help academic authors enhance the clarity, presentation and flow of their scholarly work. With new chapters focusing on the intricacies of writing developmental reviews and dissertations, the second edition of How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing provides comprehensive discussions illustrating the structural and stylistic factors involved in effective storytelling and how to apply them in writing each section of an academic article. The second edition also expands on important topics such as managing the co-authoring, writing and review processes.

This book is an invaluable resource for academics across business disciplines, particularly those in management-related sectors such as organizational behavior, organization theory, business and management history and corporate governance. It is also useful to those in adjacent social science disciplines such as sociology, psychology and economics.

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煤氣燈操縱 : 辨識人際中最暗黑的操控術, 走出精神控制與內疚, 重建自信與自尊 (The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook)

艾米‧馬洛 (Amy Marlow)
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為什麼明明是最重要的一段關係,他卻總讓我覺得自己毫無價值?
到底是我做錯,還是被他操縱?

情緒虐待、PUA、職場霸凌、邪教洗腦……都運用了「它」!


如果你也曾被「煤氣燈操縱」,有些疑問你一定深埋心中許久,卻不一定說得出口。
本書將解開你內心長久的困惑,並告訴你抵抗這種精神操縱的最佳解決之道。

◣ 什麼是「煤氣燈操縱」?

煤氣燈操縱是一種精神虐待,藉由否定、謊言、誤導,甚至恩威並施地加以情緒剝削,使受害者懷疑自己的現實、記憶、判斷力、自我認知,在極端情況下,甚至能使他們懷疑自己的精神狀態。煤氣燈操縱的本質是操弄與控制另一個人,讓受害者以操縱者的真實、利益、判斷為優先。

◣ 「煤氣燈操縱」會發生在什麼環境與條件之下?
各種人際關係都有可能發生煤氣燈操縱,但最常發生的環境往往是:①親友關係、②親密伴侶關係、③職場關係。

◣ 「煤氣燈操縱者」具有特定人格嗎?
煤氣燈操縱雖然經常與自戀型人格疾患、邊緣型人格疾患,與反社會人格有關,但並不代表所有施虐者都有人格疾患。事實上,無論是誰,都有可能虐待他人。

◣ 為什麼「煤氣燈操縱」會發生在你身上?

在尋找受害者時,施虐者的目標人選往往有這兩種特質:「易受傷害」與「值得擁有」。但有時,你只是被有施虐傾向的人找上了,不代表你具有某種人格缺陷。

◣如何辨識煤氣燈操縱?
一個人是否受困於受剝削的操縱關係,要辨識的重點不在於對方有沒有精神病態,而是在於自己與對方是否處於「明顯失衡的權力關係」。

▶▶ 從煤氣燈操縱者的目的與手段來看,有五大目標方向:①讓受害者喪失判斷力;②讓受害者噤聲;③樹立自身「有資格」這樣對待受害者的權威;④貶低並懲罰受害者,讓受害者覺得自己低他一等;⑤把他們對受害者所做的行為合理化,或美化為「愛」。

▶▶▶ 若從受害者的感受來判斷,則通常會有以下特點:①你會感到內疚;②你覺得自己被當成反應過度的那個人;③你會開始覺得你的(合理)要求是造成別人的麻煩,甚至對別人不公平;④你覺得被指責和羞辱;⑤你擔心要為此事付出代價,甚至被報復。

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