Stylish Academic Writing / / Helen Sword.
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 poi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 2 halftones, 3 line illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- Part I: STYLE AND SUBSTANCE -- 1. RULES OF ENGAGEMENT -- 2. ON BEING DISCIPLINED -- 3. A GUIDE TO THE STYLE GUIDES -- Part II: THE ELEMENTS OF STYLISHNESS -- 4. VOICE AND ECHO -- 5. SMART SENTENCING -- 6. TEMPTING TITLES -- 7. HOOKS AND SINKERS -- 8. THE STORY NET -- 9. SHOW AND TELL -- 10. JARGONITIS -- 11. STRUCTURAL DESIGNS -- 12. POINTS OF REFERENCE -- 13. THE BIG PICTURE -- 14. THE CREATIVE TOUCH -- AFTERWORD: BECOMING A STYLISH WRITER -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674065093 9783110288995 9783110288902 9783110288896 9783110374889 9783110374919 9783110442205 9783110459517 9783110662566 |
DOI: | 10.4159/harvard.9780674065093 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Helen Sword. |