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Helen Sword - Stylish Academic Writing - 9780674064485 - V9780674064485
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Stylish Academic Writing

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Description for Stylish Academic Writing Hardback. A guide to academic writing. Suitable for scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, it presents practical pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read - and to write. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 halftones, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: CBW; JNZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.

Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read—and to write.

Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword’s analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674064485
SKU
V9780674064485
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

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 Stylish Academic Writing
Sword has produced a sleek and, yes, nicely written guide based on the principle that ‘elegant ideas deserve elegant expression.’ Aiming to be useful to writers in almost any discipline, Sword defines stylish academic writing in the broadest terms.
Jennifer Howard
Times Literary Supplement
[Sword’s] counsel is wise, efficiently written, and infectiously winsome. She advises academic writers ... Read more

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