Stylish Academic Writing

Helen Sword is a University of Auckland Professor and the Director of the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education. Her well-attended academic writing courses for professors and doctoral students have taken her to institutions throughout North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia.

Helen Sword argues in her engaging guide to academic writing that attractive data and ideas deserve elegant expression. For academics who are fed up with disciplinary traditions, and for specialists who want to write for a wider audience but don't know where to start, here are inventive, practical, and amusing ideas on how to make articles and books enjoyable to read and write.

Sword dispels the misconception that you can't get published unless you write wordy, impersonal prose, demonstrating how much journal editors and readers value work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword's examination of over a thousand peer-reviewed articles from a variety of subjects reveals a stunning disparity between how academics often describe good writing and the turgid language they regularly generate.

Stylish Academic Writing features a diverse spectrum of experts from the sciences, arts, and social sciences who write with vigor and panache. Individual chapters cover various style components such as titles and headings, chapter introductions, and organization, and conclude with examples of transferrable approaches that any writer can master.

Author: Helen Sword

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