“To be a successful academic, it is not enough merely to have mastered the craft of writing intelligibly. You must also be creative enough to produce original research, persuasive enough to convey the significance of your findings to others, prolific… — 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, and even passion; engage and hold their readers’ attention; tell a compelling story; avoid jargon, except where specialized terminology is essential to the argument; provide their readers with aesthetic and intellectual pleasure; and write with originality,… — Helen Sword Copy Share
“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
