作者简介
Helen S word is Professor and Director of the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland.
内容简介
Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant express ion, argues Helen Sword in this live ly guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specia list s 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 editor s and reader s welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstr action . 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. "Stylish Academic Writing" showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. 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 .
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