Stylish Academic Writing

by Helen Sword

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674064488
• ISBN13: 9780674064485
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"