Air & Light & Time & Space by Helen Sword
From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed 100 academics worldwide about their writing background and practices and shows how they find or create the conditions to get their writing done.
Helen Sword delightfully shows that, contrary to lazy opinion, academics do not have to write in soggy, wooden, leaden, stuffy, turgid, or bloated proseShe makes the case with insightful analyses and lighthearted interviews, but her own prose is as good an illustration as any. -- Steven Pinker, author of The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Like Tolstoy’s families, happy writers are alike (and also, perhaps, nonexistent); struggling writers, however, suffer in their own ways. Helen Sword shows the diversity of productive academics’ writing practices and serves up a range of useful strategies to help those who find writing painful succeed in getting words on the page and even—believe it or not—bring some pleasure to the process. -- Rachel Toor, author of Misunderstood: Why the Humble Rat May be Your Best Pet Ever
Helen Sword does it again. In an age of academic doom, she inspires. Here she manages to be both data-driven and delightful: you have to read to see how she combines so much evidence and so much pleasure. She makes you want to consume creative academic writing—not just hers—and to try to produce nothing less. -- Brian Boyd, author of Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets
Part how-to-write manual and part rigorous study. Filled with tidbits, quotes, profiles, and anecdotes, it shines light on academic writing from a writer’s perspective, revealing the idiosyncrasies, rituals, and practices that make writers out of scholars. -- Gricel Dominguez * Library Journal *
[Sword’s] approach is a refreshing break from the conventions of a genre that offers neat, one-size-fits-all solutions to writers’ struggles…The real triumph of Sword’s book stems from the extensive interviews she’s conducted with 100 prominent academic writers and editors. -- Maximillian Alvarez * Chronicle of Higher Education *
I strongly recommend Air & Light & Time & Space for anyone who would like to experiment with, and think more deeply about, their writing practices. It is a book which has been crafted with great elegance. -- Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani * LSE Review of Books *
Sword’s new book shows that there are as many ways to be productive as there are writers. -- Rachel Toor * Chronicle of Higher Education *
Like Tolstoy’s families, happy writers are alike (and also, perhaps, nonexistent); struggling writers, however, suffer in their own ways. Helen Sword shows the diversity of productive academics’ writing practices and serves up a range of useful strategies to help those who find writing painful succeed in getting words on the page and even—believe it or not—bring some pleasure to the process. -- Rachel Toor, author of Misunderstood: Why the Humble Rat May be Your Best Pet Ever
Helen Sword does it again. In an age of academic doom, she inspires. Here she manages to be both data-driven and delightful: you have to read to see how she combines so much evidence and so much pleasure. She makes you want to consume creative academic writing—not just hers—and to try to produce nothing less. -- Brian Boyd, author of Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets
Part how-to-write manual and part rigorous study. Filled with tidbits, quotes, profiles, and anecdotes, it shines light on academic writing from a writer’s perspective, revealing the idiosyncrasies, rituals, and practices that make writers out of scholars. -- Gricel Dominguez * Library Journal *
[Sword’s] approach is a refreshing break from the conventions of a genre that offers neat, one-size-fits-all solutions to writers’ struggles…The real triumph of Sword’s book stems from the extensive interviews she’s conducted with 100 prominent academic writers and editors. -- Maximillian Alvarez * Chronicle of Higher Education *
I strongly recommend Air & Light & Time & Space for anyone who would like to experiment with, and think more deeply about, their writing practices. It is a book which has been crafted with great elegance. -- Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani * LSE Review of Books *
Sword’s new book shows that there are as many ways to be productive as there are writers. -- Rachel Toor * Chronicle of Higher Education *
Helen Sword is Professor and Director of the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674737709 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674737709 |
| Title | Air & Light & Time & Space |
| Author | Helen Sword |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2017-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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