Stylish Academic Writing Audiobook (Free)

Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this exciting guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, as well as for specialists who wish to write for a more substantial market but are uncertain where to start, here are imaginative, useful, witty ideas that show steps to make articles and books a satisfaction to read-and to create.

Dispelling the myth that you cannot obtain published without composing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword’s evaluation greater than one thousand peer-reviewed content across an array of areas papers a startling space between how academics typically explain good writing and the turgid prose they frequently produce.

Stylish Academic Composing showcases a variety of scholars in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who compose with vividness and panache. Person chapters take up specific elements of style, such as for example game titles and headings, section openings, and structure, and close with types of transferable techniques that any writer can master.