作者简介

Helen Sword is Professor and Director of the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland.

内容简介

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.

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  • Ursula
    Only when you practise a lot~02-16
  • 小呀嘛小宠虫
    写多了太单调沉闷的学术论文 这本书简直就是一缕清风 原来学术写作也可以有范儿。觉得每次写论文的时候都可以复习一遍。11-18
  • Fritz
    直指要害。和市面上很多书相比,这本书有个好处,就是用1000篇各个学科的论文做了语料分析,但很奇怪的是,他好像没怎么注意到经济学论文里面有很多非常stylish的用法,尤其是博弈论,cheap talk, trembling hand,incredible thread, goa09-14
  • carried
    对于我这样的外国人来说,这本书真的很有用。LB2369. Academic writing. English language - Style.04-20
  • Renee
    New year resolution01-10

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