Air & light & time & space : how successful academics write / Helen Sword.

Author/creator Sword, Helen author.
Format Electronic
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Copyright Date©2017
Description1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrations
Supplemental ContentEBSCOhost
Subjects
Academic writing.
College teachers as authors.
Electronic books.

Variant title Air and light and time and space : how successful academics write
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.
Abstract 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.
Abstract This book is a 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. 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.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageIn English.
Source of descriptionPrint version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Sword, Helen. Air & light & time & space. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017 9780674737709
ISBN9780674977617 (electronic bk.)
ISBN0674977610 (electronic bk.)
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