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Stylish Academic Writing (2012)

by Helen Sword(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0674064488 (ISBN13: 9780674064485)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Harvard University Press

review 1: Stylish Academic Writing The author had her moments where she gave great advice. Also, the book mostly lived up to its aim: to promote stylish academic writing. The problem is that a huge portion of the book was based on a sample from over 10 different disciplines and countless different journals that led me to skip numerous parts that I found uninteresting. Anyhow, I did get some good pointers about style such as not being afraid to show your passion or personality, even in academic writing.
review 2: Pretty good. Sword writes clearly -- if she didn't, she'd be like a dentist with bad teeth -- and challenges the reader to write whatever they're writing with readability as the ultimate goal. Depending on the field you work in, you might be more or less able t... moreo try her many suggestions for writing more stylish academic prose.I feel she under-emphasizes one important tool for creating better writing: rewriting. A piece should go through revisons, and perhaps many revisions, before being considered fit for public consumption. Sword doesn't give the reader a good sense of just how much blood, sweat, and tears should go into an article about hematology, excerise physiology, or romantic poetry.Overall, though, if you're fed up reading awfully-written articles and don't want to be producing such articles, "Stylish Academic Writing" will give you some good ideas. less

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