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Stylish Academic Writing

By: Helen Sword
Narrated by: Virginia Wolf
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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 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.

©2012 Helen Sword (P)2018 Tantor Education Higher & Continuing Education Words, Language & Grammar Writing & Publishing Witty Academic Writing
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As an academic writer, I wanted to go back to specific sections and it was incredibly difficult. I did the first listen without taking many notes and now I am trying to go back and listen to particular parts that really connected with my writing journey. Unfortunately, there is no index in the app or chapter names. It seems lazy to me.

Really annoyed that there is no index or chapter names

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For a book about writing with style, this book is so dull - narrated badly too. I really tried hard to listen in case there were any gems but had to give up. Funny really if you consider the authors title

Lacks style!!

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