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Yet some principles of good writing remain timeless. Helen Sword does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. - that I was embarrassed to identify in my own written work. Sword raided journals from a wide spectrum of disciplines and found even more problems than I've seen, and but also many examples of concrete, specific, engaging scholarly writing.
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As a starting point, nearly all stylish academic writers ply... Every discipline has its own specialized language, its membership rites, its secret handshake. In the preface, I note that all stylish academic writers hold three ideals in common: communication, craft, and creativity.Communicationimplies respect for one’s audience;craft,respect for language;creativity,respect for academic endeavor. It's impossible to read this book and not get at least a dozen ideas for how to do that better. It is practical and interesting. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Welcome back. .
Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing, They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, The Only Academic Phrasebook You'll Ever Need: 600 Examples of Academic Language, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA.
Depending on the field you work in, you might be more or less able to try her many suggestions for writing more stylish academic prose. My only complaint - and it's a relatively minor one - is that some chapters are a bit heavy on quantitative data. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master. Do your sentences sound as though they’ve been produced by a robot? What power! Other walls can go with impunity. In closing, I would like to add three further Cs: concreteness, choice, and courage.Concretenessis a verbal technique;choice,an intellectual right;courage,a frame of mind. Too bad.
It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2014, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2015. Any academic - every academic - will think differently about scholarly writing at the conclusion of this book. I bought this as a resource for an undergraduate essay writing class that I teach, but it's turned out to be very useful in my own writing. “academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.”, “Stylish scholars, my colleagues told me, express complex ideas clearly and precisely; produce elegant, carefully crafted sentences; convey a sense of energy, intellectual commitment, and even passion; engage and hold their readers’ attention; tell a compelling story; avoid jargon, except where specialized terminology is essential to the argument; provide their readers with aesthetic and intellectual pleasure; and write with originality, imagination, and creative flair.”, Best Books on Publishing Research Papers in Journals, John Grisham's Recommended Thriller Reading List. The following ISBNs are associated with this title: Sign up to get exclusive offers, the best in books & more.Plus, enjoy 10% off your next online purchase over $50.†. She also fails to transition between topics; most of the text reads like a list of descriptions of stylistic features and is often long-winded, using lots of unnecessary metaphor and colourful language that doesn't add to the meaning or pleasure of reading. And she points out that academic writing, though it is often almost impenetrable, doesn't have to be. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in.
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You may unsubscribe at any time. The tips and tricks at the end of each chapter are often simple exercises to help expand your own writing style. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Ultimo, New South Wales, Digital Communication and Work Stress in Australian Universities Survey (supported by the Australian Research Council) Sword’s analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce. Unable to add item to Wish List.
Yet some principles of good writing remain timeless. Helen Sword does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. - that I was embarrassed to identify in my own written work. Sword raided journals from a wide spectrum of disciplines and found even more problems than I've seen, and but also many examples of concrete, specific, engaging scholarly writing.
Prime members enjoy Free Two-Day Shipping, Free Same-Day or One-Day Delivery to select areas, Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime Reading, and more. At the same time, however, a book or article weighed down by awkwardly placed parenthetical citations and ponderous footnotes will probably be less readable, less engaging, and ultimately less persuasive than a piece of writing that wears its scholarly apparatus lightly.
As a starting point, nearly all stylish academic writers ply... Every discipline has its own specialized language, its membership rites, its secret handshake. In the preface, I note that all stylish academic writers hold three ideals in common: communication, craft, and creativity.Communicationimplies respect for one’s audience;craft,respect for language;creativity,respect for academic endeavor. It's impossible to read this book and not get at least a dozen ideas for how to do that better. It is practical and interesting. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Welcome back. .
Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing, They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, The Only Academic Phrasebook You'll Ever Need: 600 Examples of Academic Language, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA.
Depending on the field you work in, you might be more or less able to try her many suggestions for writing more stylish academic prose. My only complaint - and it's a relatively minor one - is that some chapters are a bit heavy on quantitative data. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master. Do your sentences sound as though they’ve been produced by a robot? What power! Other walls can go with impunity. In closing, I would like to add three further Cs: concreteness, choice, and courage.Concretenessis a verbal technique;choice,an intellectual right;courage,a frame of mind. Too bad.
It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2014, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2015. Any academic - every academic - will think differently about scholarly writing at the conclusion of this book. I bought this as a resource for an undergraduate essay writing class that I teach, but it's turned out to be very useful in my own writing. “academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.”, “Stylish scholars, my colleagues told me, express complex ideas clearly and precisely; produce elegant, carefully crafted sentences; convey a sense of energy, intellectual commitment, and even passion; engage and hold their readers’ attention; tell a compelling story; avoid jargon, except where specialized terminology is essential to the argument; provide their readers with aesthetic and intellectual pleasure; and write with originality, imagination, and creative flair.”, Best Books on Publishing Research Papers in Journals, John Grisham's Recommended Thriller Reading List. The following ISBNs are associated with this title: Sign up to get exclusive offers, the best in books & more.Plus, enjoy 10% off your next online purchase over $50.†. She also fails to transition between topics; most of the text reads like a list of descriptions of stylistic features and is often long-winded, using lots of unnecessary metaphor and colourful language that doesn't add to the meaning or pleasure of reading. And she points out that academic writing, though it is often almost impenetrable, doesn't have to be. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in.
The best writing isn't. All Rights Reserved.
You may unsubscribe at any time. The tips and tricks at the end of each chapter are often simple exercises to help expand your own writing style. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Ultimo, New South Wales, Digital Communication and Work Stress in Australian Universities Survey (supported by the Australian Research Council) Sword’s analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce. Unable to add item to Wish List.
Yet some principles of good writing remain timeless. Helen Sword does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. - that I was embarrassed to identify in my own written work. Sword raided journals from a wide spectrum of disciplines and found even more problems than I've seen, and but also many examples of concrete, specific, engaging scholarly writing.
Prime members enjoy Free Two-Day Shipping, Free Same-Day or One-Day Delivery to select areas, Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime Reading, and more. At the same time, however, a book or article weighed down by awkwardly placed parenthetical citations and ponderous footnotes will probably be less readable, less engaging, and ultimately less persuasive than a piece of writing that wears its scholarly apparatus lightly.
As a starting point, nearly all stylish academic writers ply... Every discipline has its own specialized language, its membership rites, its secret handshake. In the preface, I note that all stylish academic writers hold three ideals in common: communication, craft, and creativity.Communicationimplies respect for one’s audience;craft,respect for language;creativity,respect for academic endeavor. It's impossible to read this book and not get at least a dozen ideas for how to do that better. It is practical and interesting. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Welcome back. .
Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing, They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, The Only Academic Phrasebook You'll Ever Need: 600 Examples of Academic Language, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA.
Depending on the field you work in, you might be more or less able to try her many suggestions for writing more stylish academic prose. My only complaint - and it's a relatively minor one - is that some chapters are a bit heavy on quantitative data. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master. Do your sentences sound as though they’ve been produced by a robot? What power! Other walls can go with impunity. In closing, I would like to add three further Cs: concreteness, choice, and courage.Concretenessis a verbal technique;choice,an intellectual right;courage,a frame of mind. Too bad.
It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2014, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2015. Any academic - every academic - will think differently about scholarly writing at the conclusion of this book. I bought this as a resource for an undergraduate essay writing class that I teach, but it's turned out to be very useful in my own writing. “academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.”, “Stylish scholars, my colleagues told me, express complex ideas clearly and precisely; produce elegant, carefully crafted sentences; convey a sense of energy, intellectual commitment, and even passion; engage and hold their readers’ attention; tell a compelling story; avoid jargon, except where specialized terminology is essential to the argument; provide their readers with aesthetic and intellectual pleasure; and write with originality, imagination, and creative flair.”, Best Books on Publishing Research Papers in Journals, John Grisham's Recommended Thriller Reading List. The following ISBNs are associated with this title: Sign up to get exclusive offers, the best in books & more.Plus, enjoy 10% off your next online purchase over $50.†. She also fails to transition between topics; most of the text reads like a list of descriptions of stylistic features and is often long-winded, using lots of unnecessary metaphor and colourful language that doesn't add to the meaning or pleasure of reading. And she points out that academic writing, though it is often almost impenetrable, doesn't have to be. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in.
The best writing isn't. All Rights Reserved.
You may unsubscribe at any time. The tips and tricks at the end of each chapter are often simple exercises to help expand your own writing style. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Ultimo, New South Wales, Digital Communication and Work Stress in Australian Universities Survey (supported by the Australian Research Council) Sword’s analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce. Unable to add item to Wish List.
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