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Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write
Helen Sword
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Description for Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write
Hardback. From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed 100 academics worldwide about their writing background and practices and shows how they find or create the conditions to get their writing done. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 20 x 13. .
From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment. So how do these successful academics write, and where do they find the air and light and time and space, in the words of poet Charles Bukowski, to get their writing done? What are their formative ... Read more
From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment. So how do these successful academics write, and where do they find the air and light and time and space, in the words of poet Charles Bukowski, to get their writing done? What are their formative ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674737709
SKU
V9780674737709
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About Helen Sword
Helen Sword is Professor and Director of the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland.
Reviews for Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write
[Sword's] approach is a refreshing break from the conventions of a genre that offers neat, one-size-fits-all solutions to writers' struggles...The real triumph of Sword's book stems from the extensive interviews she's conducted with 100 prominent academic writers and editors.
Maximillian Alvarez Chronicle of Higher Education (04/23/2017) Sword's new book shows that there are as many ways to be productive as ... Read more
Maximillian Alvarez Chronicle of Higher Education (04/23/2017) Sword's new book shows that there are as many ways to be productive as ... Read more