“Stylish scholars, my colleagues told me, express complex ideas clearly and precisely; produce elegant, carefully crafted sentences; convey a sense of energy, intellectual commitment, and even passion; engage and hold their readers’ attention; tell a compelling story; avoid jargon, except… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
“Of all the myths surrounding academic writing, the fallacy of effortless productivity is among the most persistent.” — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
“Stylish scholars, my colleagues told me, express complex ideas clearly and precisely; produce elegant, carefully crafted sentences; convey a sense of energy, intellectual commitment,… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
“academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.” — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
“To be a successful academic, it is not enough merely to have mastered the craft of writing intelligibly. You must also be creative enough… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
“Academics identified by their peers as stylish writers for other reasons—their intelligence, humor, personal voice, or descriptive power—are invariably sticklers for well-crafted prose. Their… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
“Productivity, I discovered, is a broad church that tolerates many creeds. Some successful academics write daily, others sporadically; some at home, others at work;… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
“For the rest of us—members of that peculiar, prosaic species classified by Pierre Bourdieu as homo academicus9—dwelling poetically could mean gauging the dimensions of… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
“Perhaps what we need is a radical reconceptualization of time: not as an adversary to be vanquished (a race against time) or a criminal… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
