Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write by Helen Sword (Engli

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment.So how do these successful academics write, and where do they find the "air and light and time and space," in the words of poet Charles Bukowski, to get their writing done? What are their formative experiences, their daily routines, their habits of mind? How do they summon up the courage to take intellectual risks and the resilience to deal with rejection?Sword identifies four cornerstones that anchor any successful writing practice: Behavioral habits of discipline and persistence; Artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care; Social habits of collegiality and collaboration; and Emotional habits of positivity and pleasure. Building on this "BASE," she illuminates the emotional complexity of the writing process and exposes the lack of writing support typically available to early-career academics. She also lays to rest the myth that academics must produce safe, conventional prose or risk professional failure. The successful writers profiled here tell stories of intellectual passions indulged, disciplinary conventions subverted, and risk-taking rewarded. Grounded in empirical research and focused on sustainable change, Air & Light & Time & Space offers a customizable blueprint for refreshing personal habits and creating a collegial environment where all writers can flourish. Author Biography Helen Sword is Professor and Director of the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland. Review Helen Sword delightfully shows that, contrary to lazy opinion, academics do not have to write in soggy, wooden, leaden, stuffy, turgid, or bloated prose. She 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 Persons Guide to Writing in the 21st CenturyLike Tolstoys 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 EverHelen 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 Shakespeares SonnetsPart how-to-write manual and part rigorous study. Filled with tidbits, quotes, profiles, and anecdotes, it shines light on academic writing from a writers perspective, revealing the idiosyncrasies, rituals, and practices that make writers out of scholars. -- Gricel Dominguez * Library Journal *[Swords] 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 Swords book stems from the extensive interviews shes 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 *Swords new book shows that there are as many ways to be productive as there are writers. -- Rachel Toor * Chronicle of Higher Education * Review Quote Helen Sword delightfully shows that contrary to lazy opinion, academics do not have to write in soggy, wooden, leaden, stuffy, turgid, or bloated prose. She makes the case with insightful analyses and lighthearted interviews, but her own prose is as good an illustration as any. Details ISBN0674737709 Publisher Harvard University Press Year 2017 ISBN-10 0674737709 ISBN-13 9780674737709 Format Hardcover Author Helen Sword Language English Pages 280 Imprint Harvard University Press Subtitle How Successful Academics Write Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Media Book DEWEY 808.042 Short Title Air and Light and Time and Space Illustrations 8 line illustrations, 1 table Publication Date 2017-04-17 UK Release Date 2017-04-17 NZ Release Date 2017-04-17 US Release Date 2017-04-17 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2017-04-16 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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