Air & light & time & space : how successful academics write /

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 conditi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sword, Helen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Academic writing.
College teachers as authors.
Écriture savante.
Professeurs écrivains (Enseignement supérieur)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
EDUCATION / Higher
Academic writing
College teachers as authors
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The house of writing
  • Introduction: Building the BASE
  • Part I.
  • Behavioral habits: Finding time to write
  • The power of place
  • Rhythms and rituals
  • Part II.
  • Artisanal habits: Learning to write
  • The craft of writing
  • The other tongue
  • Part III.
  • Social habits: Writing for others
  • Writing with others
  • Writing among others
  • Part IV.
  • Emotional habits: The pleasure principle
  • Risk and resilience
  • Metaphors to write by
  • Conclusion: Raising the roof
  • Afterword: Beyond the house of writing.

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